Hi.
The Control-number search term is set up in zebra as word or phrase.
You can check what is found from the simple-search box by typing:
Control-number="123456"
and searching for that.
However if you use hyphens then that is treated as white space so if you
have records with:
123-456
and one with
123-678
and one with
123
in the 001 tag then searching for 123 will find them all.
This might explain why they do not find a unique match.
It might be possible to change the zebra configuration or add an index
to be more literal but that takes it to another level.
I hope that explains a bit.
Cheers.
On 31/10/2011 18:01, Elaine Bradtke wrote:
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?
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