That complicates matters. I may have to rethink things. Thanks for the info. Elaine
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Ian Bays <ian.b...@ptfs-europe.com> wrote: > 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? >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> >> >> > > -- > 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
