[Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

[Charles Kelley]

Hi, all!

    In our earliest exchange, on 6 Jul 2020 at 14:09, I wrote among other
things:


>    I have been looking for an answer to the following question, but I've
> been unable to find one: What are the purpose and use of the frameworks?
>

[etc., etc., etc.]

    In an exchange on 6 Jul 2020 at 09:08, Caroline Cyr-La-Rose responded
among other things:

Frameworks are cataloguing "forms". You can use many different ones or just
> the default one.
>

[etc., etc., etc.]

    In an exchange on 6 Jul 2020 at 10:12, John Sterbenz responded among
other things:

Frameworks give me the ability to do something I wished my previous catalog
> could do but didn't--customized OPAC and staff-side field labels (all the
> way down to the subfield level, which is a really nice bonus).  While the
> "provided" ones focus on format, you have the ability to create brand new
> ones, so if you have several collection of "regular old books" that you
> would want to which you want to assign and create new frameworks, you can
> do so easily.
>

[etc., etc., etc.]

    Thank you both. I understand now.

    I do have a follow-up question: Is it possible in Koha to change a
framework of a group records en masse? For example, if I have a group of
747 maps (949 $c = "MAP") but their framework is BKS, can I change the
framework to MAP through Koha in one fell swoop (and if so, how so); or
must I painstakingly change them one at a time?

    I have tried exporting them into MarcEdit and importing them anew into
Koha while selecting "Import this batch into the catalog" with "Add new
bibliographic records into this framework:" (select from the dropdown
menu), but the framework for each record remains as it was before the
exporting and importing.

    Many thanks.

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