[Koha] Searching Authority Records by Authority Record Number

[Charles Kelley]

Hi, all!

    In a recent exchange, on 20 Nov 2019, at 11:05, Bob Birchall wrote:

Search for authorities on any term. For any authority in the results list,
> choose action 'edit'. On the editor page, in the URL, change the authority
> number (authid) to that of the record you wish to edit.


    In a later exchange, on 20 Nov 2019, at 14:06, Heather Hernandez wrote:

We're on 18.11, but if I just put an aut record number into the search box
> with "Default," "contains" selected, my Koha returns just the aut record
> with that aut record number. (It does the same thing if I use the LCCN from
> the 010 field.)  Interestingly enough, it works also in the Authority
> Search in the OPAC.


    I'm afraid that neither technique worked. We use 3.20 from Josh
Hertel's test (and training) package. We are building a proof-of-concept
machine and this is what we could get up and running, at least well enough
to make MARC records. We're now building a more recent version of Koha,
either 18.11 or 19.05, on a Debian or Ubuntu server.

    Nonetheless, we are encountering the limitations of such an old version
and I'm trying to clean up records before copying to the new machine. In
any event, it looks like this is one of the limitations, and we'll have to
clean up the authority records after the migration.

    I had hoped there was something analogous to searching sn:5946 for
bibliographic records by biblionumber. If anyone knows a way of specifying
the record number in authority record searches, we would greatly
appreciated it.

    Thanks for everyone's help.

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