[Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

[Himanshu Aggarwal]

Ok, thanks.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:09 PM Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> you can't map one MARC field to another, so I am not sure what you are
> trying to do. But I think this would be a new question, so better to start
> a new thread :)
>
> Katrin
>
>
> On 24.07.21 17:35, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote:
>
> But can we map 852$j to 952$j?
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:01 PM Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> just confirming you are on the right path there. While changing the item
>> mappings in Koha is possible, I'd always recommend against it. For
>> example you'd also have to change the indexing for Zebra/Elasticsearch
>> to match your new fields. Converting your data to 952 is the better
>> option.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Katrin
>>
>> On 16.07.21 15:57, Jon Witts wrote:
>> > OK, so answering myself...
>> >
>> > I think I have got it to work now as best as I can... I imported the
>> MARC
>> > export from our legacy system into MARCEdit, had to then verify it and
>> > remove invalid records. I could then use MARCEdit's switch fields tool
>> and
>> > replace subfields tools to create the required 952 items in the MARC
>> file
>> > ready for import into Koha...
>> >
>> > Looking pretty good at the minute; need to do some further checks on the
>> > data, but it is certainly getting closer!
>> >
>> > Jon
>> > -----------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Jon Witts
>> > Director of Digital Strategy
>> > -----------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 09:06, Jon Witts <jwitts at queenmargarets.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi there,
>> >>
>> >> I am a new Koha user and have just set up and installed a new Koha
>> >> instance for our school library. We are running on a single Ubuntu
>> server
>> >> and I followed the Ubuntu/ Debian install documentation and installed
>> from
>> >> the packages.
>> >>
>> >> I am now trying to import our catalogue from our legacy system
>> (Softlink
>> >> Alice) and have run into some issues...
>> >>
>> >> In the MARC export from our legacy system the details for each item are
>> >> stored in the 852 fields, specifically:
>> >> * 852,k = Item Library name / location
>> >> * 852,h = Item classification i.e. F for fiction or 242 for non-fiction
>> >> Dewey code
>> >> * 852,i = Item suffix i.e. CAR for author Frank Carr
>> >> * 852,p = item barcode
>> >> * 852,t = item copy number
>> >>
>> >> I thought that I could use the "Koha to MARC Mapping" to edit this, but
>> >> after adding the new mappings in I get an error in the "MARC
>> >> bibliographic framework test", specifically:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> *ALL items fields MUST :be mapped to the same tag,and they must all be
>> in
>> >> the 10 (items) tab*
>> >>
>> >> On the "Koha to MARC Mapping" page it states "If you make any change to
>> >> the mappings, you must ask your administrator to run
>> >> misc/batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl.", however when I run
>> >> the /usr/share/koha/bin/batchRebuildBiblioTables.pl script I get the
>> >> following errors:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> *unable to locate Koha configuration file koha-conf.xml at
>> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Context.pm line 188.Use of uninitialized value
>> in
>> >> concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Templates.pm line
>> >> 154.Use of uninitialized value $db_name in concatenation (.) or string
>> at
>> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
>> >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
>> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
>> >> $db_name in concatenation (.) or string at
>> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
>> >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
>> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized
>> value in
>> >> concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Auth_with_cas.pm
>> line
>> >> 42.Use of uninitialized value $db_name in concatenation (.) or string
>> at
>> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
>> >> $db_host in concatenation (.) or string at
>> >> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Database.pm line 91.Use of uninitialized value
>> >> $INC[-1] in string eq at /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Plugins.pm line 37.*
>> >>
>> >> Am I going about this the wrong way? How should I be mapping these 852
>> >> fields into the 952 / items fields in Koha?
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks,
>> >> Jon
>> >>
>> >> -----------------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> Jon Witts
>> >> Director of Digital Strategy
>> >> -----------------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >>
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