That's great for new records. Not so good if one is trying to migrate records.
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 20:54 -0700, David Schuster wrote: > Might be radical, but I told my vendors how I wanted my MARC 952 to look and > they are complying no cost to me since I'm paying for the records... > ;) > > Follett is in compliance > > David > > > savitra wrote: > > > > for some reason people did not receive this. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: savitra sirohi <savitra.sir...@osslabs.biz> > > Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:36 AM > > Subject: Need to Modify Marc Import Tool > > To: koha-devel <koha-devel@lists.koha.org> > > > > > > Folks, > > > > One of our customers wants the ability to import Follett marc records > > without having to use Marc Edit (to change fields 852 to 952). > > > > We want to make this change generic such that it will work for any > > import file that has holdings in fields other than 952. > > > > This is what we were thinking, will appreciate feedback on this design: > > > > 1. Use marc_subfield_structure table to store field structure of the > > import file. So Follett would have records under its framework code. > > We could create frameworks for other vendors too. > > 2. Accept framework code as user input from stage-marc-import.pl. User > > could choose nothing which means input file already has holdings in > > 952. Or could choose Follett or some other vendor. > > 3. Pass framework code as parameter to BatchStageMarcRecords > > (C4/ImportBatch.pm) and from there to AddItemsToImportBiblio > > (C4/ImportBatch.pm). > > 4. In AddItemsToImportBiblio > > - Use the input framework code in GetMarcFromKohaField (C4/Biblio.pm) > > to fetch Follett holdings fields and subfields > > - Fetch default fields and subfields (952) using null framework code, as > > is currently done. > > - For each subfield set values appropriately (in the case of Follett > > 952s = 852s) before saving item record. > > 5. Initially the code will help with holdings tags, and later we could > > extend this to biblio tags as well. > > > > Thanks, > > Savitra Sirohi > > Nucsoft OSS Labs > > http://www.osslabs.biz > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha-devel mailing list > > Koha-devel@lists.koha.org > > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > > > > -- Michael Hafen Systems Analyst and Programmer Washington County School District Utah, USA for Koha checkout http://koha-dev.washk12.org or git://koha-dev.washk12.org/koha _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
