[Koha-win32] Re: [Koha] Help regarding 'items.itemcallnumber' (re-sent message)

[Stephen Hedges]

Joseph,

There is a one-to-one relationship between the MARC tags and the Koha
fields.  Tag 942 $a, for example, can only be mapped to one Koha field. 
So your solution is OK.  Another thing you could do would be set up a
separate MARC tag to hold the itemcallnumber and automatically copy 942 $a
to your new tag using the "Link to field" feature.

Stephen

Joseph Coelho SJ said:
> _I am re-sending this message since I sent it from the wrong email
> address:_
>
> Hello.
>
> I am running Koha 2.2.3 on Windows 98. About 2,800 (out of the over
> 40,000) books of our library have already been entered into the
> database. The small hitches have been sorted out and things as of now
> are going on well. The 'Circulation' part has not yet been used (though
> it has been tested).
>
> However, I have one problem which I am not able to solve.
>
> The field 'biblioitems.classification' is mapped to the MARC tag 942 $a
> (Institution Code)
> I would like to also store this value in the field
> 'items.itemcallnumber' for every item of the particular biblio.
>
> I could not find any way out and, therefore, now run this script in
> MySQL after the day's data entry is done:
> use blank223
> update items,biblioitems set
> items.itemcallnumber=biblioitems.classification where
> items.biblionumber=biblioitems.biblionumber;
> quit
>
> I tried peeking into the code in additems.pl but could not understand
> where I can tweak to get any change done.
>
> I will be grateful if anyone can tell me what is the code I should
> include and where. I guess it may just be a line or two. (I am not a
> Perl programmer!)
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> Good wishes
> Joe Coelho, SJ
> Pune, India.
>
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> Post Box 3007
> Pune 411014. INDIA
>
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