[Koha] Loading and undoing e-book records (was: RE: What is the point of the Undo Import into catalogue feature?)

Sat Dec 3 03:51:22 NZDT 2016

Fred,
Ebooks is the classic best case use of the Undo Import feature.  Especially
in a case like yours were the bibs have no items.  You can import the batch
(maybe with a note to show when to remove)  And when you're ready, you undo
the import and those bibs are removed.  You should not see any issues in
the use-case you describe.

Your other option of creating an itemtype of R2 records works as well.  You
can use a Report to gather the itemnumbers for the R2 items, feed them into
the Batch Deletion tool and remove them (and the bib) that way.    This way
is a bit more work, but works just as well.

joy

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 7:17 AM, King, Fred <Fred.King at medstar.net> wrote:

> Raymund, and others who have used the Undo Import feature,
>
> Since I was about to do pretty much the same thing, could you tell me what
> little tendrils were left when you did an Undo? I loaded a batch of e-books
> a while back (ClinicalKey and ClinicalKey nursing), and I was planning to
> undo that batch and load the latest collection. They're just catalog
> records with 856 tags pointing to the online book--no item records,
> checkout history or anything similar. We're using Koha 16.05 with Ubuntu
> 14.04LTS.
>
> We're also about to offer our users the Rittenhouse R2 collection. This
> gives our users access to a huge collection of medical books. Any book may
> be used up to three times without extra charge; once that limit has been
> reached, we have to decide whether to buy the e-book for our e-book
> collection.
>
> I'm just starting to think of ways to handle this in Koha; if anyone else
> has worked with a collection that provides access for x number of uses and
> then disappears (if we decide not to purchase it) or provides unlimited
> access (if we do purchase it), I'd love to hear from you.
>
> My current thought is to add all the R2 MARC records as a new item type
> and put a note in the OPAC Results and OPAC Detail screens that explains
> what this collection is and how it works. Once the limit has been reached,
> I could change the item type to R2--added to collection or R2--not added to
> collection. Has anyone come up with a better way?
>
> Fred King
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> From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Tomas
> Cohen Arazi
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2016 6:35 AM
> To: Raymund Delahunty; Koha
> Subject: Re: [Koha] What is the point of the Undo Import into catalogue
> feature?
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> File a bug report for that issue, please.
>
> El vie., 2 de dic. de 2016 1:26 AM, Raymund Delahunty <
> r.delahunty at arts.ac.uk> escribió:
>
> > We regularly import large files of MARC records into our Koha (16.05)
> > database which have to be deleted at a later date… sometimes months
> later,
> > and sometimes maybe 30,000 records. I have been using the Undo import
> > (sort-of “unstage”) as I found this functionality astoundingly useful. It
> > automated a task, reducing a tedious job to a couple of keystrokes.
> >
> > However I was dismayed to find that after a recent “Undo” of 13,000
> > records our database was left over 7,000 “phantom records”- they didn’t
> > exist but the indexing had failed to remove all traces of them
> >
> > We were advised to use the batch record deletion tool, as the Undo
> feature
> > wasn’t designed to be used in the way I was using it. “… it is meant to
> > unstage records nearer to the point in time of being added”. (And what’s
> > the point of that?) We had to have our database re-indexed to resolve the
> > problem. Is there any point in the Undo feature if the indexer can’t
> cope?
> > I hate to think what other dross I had left behind in earlier “Undos”!
> >
> > Ray Delahunty
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