I followed the example here (control number is what I want it to match on) http://manual.koha-community.org/3.2/en/catadmin.html#recordmatchingrules But now I don't get any matches at all. Our control numbers are a combination of letters and numbers with punctuation (sometimes dashes, sometimes full stops). There is no explanation of what offset, length and normalization mean so I am just blindly imitating what's there rather than making an informed choice. Does our punctuation require different settings? Elaine
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ian Bays <ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com> wrote: > Hi Elaine, > > Yes as long as your unique number is in the 001 you can set up a new match > rule referring to "Control-number" and match on that. I use that quite a > lot. I think I posted about it about a year ago. > The Community documentation should be enough to get you going but do come > back if you need more detail. > > Cheers. > Ian > > On 31/10/2011 17:06, Elaine Bradtke wrote: >> >> Ours is a rather quirky collection, I know. But an awful lot of it >> doesn't have an ISBN or ISSN (1364 biblios in a collection of 1664 >> fall into this category). I am working on a project to batch change >> all the biblios in a particular collection. Selecting them, >> downloading them, and editing the MARC records was easy. Now I would >> like to upload them and overwrite the old records. This only seems >> possible for the 300 biblios with an ISBN. >> We have unique internal control numbers (001). Is there any way I can >> match the records with this field instead? >> If not, what are my other options? > > -- > Ian Bays > Director of Projects > PTFS Europe > mobile: +44 (0) 7774995297 > phone: +44 (0) 800 756 6803 > skype: ian.bays > email: ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
