Elaine,
What about your 035 field? Is that filled in with a unique value in your target biblios? -Ian On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Elaine Bradtke <e...@efdss.org> wrote: > 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 > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal
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