Hi Alvaro
You wrote:
> Have you tried manual edit of the field and see how it shows
> before/after the modification in opac/staff and mark view?
Editing the record field manually is no problem (here from "ger" to
"fre" in MARC 008,35-37). Before it looks like
800422s1978 sz a 1 ger
And after the action like this:
800422s1978 sz a 1 fre
MARC 008 definitely MUST have 40 characters (position 0-39) but as seen
in the above example here only 23 characters are shown since the
webbrowser collapses several blanks down to one blank, according to some
weird HTML rule. So this is wrong in all the MARC views, OPAC or staff
client, I think not only in the current but in all previous versions,
thus kind of a bug.
For this problem see https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp
where they write:
"If you write 10 spaces in your text, the browser will remove 9 of them.
To add real spaces to your text, you can use the character entity."
But Koha doesn't add any so the correct number of characters is
destroyed in the webbroweser.
> Also in your regex, "ger" is case sensitive. Might you have "Ger"?
> Have you tried a case insensitive for regex "ger"?
No, I always have "ger" since it is the correct MARC language code for
German.
> How about changing a record with already with ger to any other
> language?
I don't know exactly what you mean. Editing the record manually from
"ger" to any other MARC language code is no problem. Using the MARC
modification templates to change MARC 008,35-37 seems not possible since
this feature seems only to be able to handle data fields but not the
special structure of controlfields (or, however, I didn't find out how
to achieve this - but anyway it is not what I want to do).
In my case I just defined the following template action which I was able
to save, but when applying it to an appropriate record, nothing happens
and no new MARC 041$ager is added. Why does this not work?
Add new field 041$a with value ger if 008 matches RegEx
m/^...................................ger..$/
Is there maybe another way to add MARC 041$ager to every record that has
"ger" in MARC 008,35-37?
Best wishes: Michael
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Le dim. 17 mars 2019 à 09:21, Michael Kuhn <m...@adminkuhn.ch
<mailto:m...@adminkuhn.ch>> a écrit :
Hi Jonathan
You wrote:
> For kidding I wanted to answer you that dots were missing.
> But actually:
> % echo '...................................'|wc -m # number of dots
before ger
> 36
> % echo '190315b ||||| |||| 00| 0 '|wc -m # all chars before ger
> 26
In fact the MARC view in the staff client and the OPAC do not show the
correct content (as foudn in the database) of any field, if mor than
one
blnak does appear fllowing each other - instead the they will be
automatically collapsed down by the webbrowser to just one. Even the
MARC plain view in the OPAC behaves in this wrong way; and only (but
most importantly) the actual catalogueing framework behaves correctly.
So the OPAC view etc will show something like the following, which
according to the MARC 21 format can never be correct because MARC 008
MUST contain 40 characters, but the OPAC view does only show 31 in this
case:
190315b ||||| |||| 00| 0 ger d
However, of course I hope the Batch record modification will work on
the
actual data in the database which of course actually does contain
exactly 40 characters: (I kept the tags to show where the data actually
begins and ends, since blanks are hardly visible)
<controlfield tag="008">800422s1978 sz a 1 ger
</controlfield>
> Maybe there are too many?
No, I have counted them before, my regular expression looks like
m/^...................................ger..$/
According to the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data controlfield 008
contains 40 positions. In my regular expression
* positions 0-34 can contain any character (thus 35 dots)
* positions 35-37 must contain "ger" (thus the three characters "ger")
* positions 38-39 can contain any character (thus 2 dots).
All in all my expressions does contain 40 positions. So I guess it
should work, but it doesn't. Is this maybe a bug?
Best wishes: Michael
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> Le ven. 15 mars 2019 à 15:42, Michael Kuhn <m...@adminkuhn.ch
<mailto:m...@adminkuhn.ch>> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Currently some Koha newbies have forgotten to add the value "ger" in
>> MARC 041$a when catalogueing, but they did add the correct value
"ger"
>> in MARC 008,35-37. However, this results in some missing entries
in the
>> language facet. The plain MARC view in the OPAC of such a record may
>> look like this:
>>
>> 000 00216nam a22001097a 4500
>> 999 _c470
>> _d470
>> 003 OSt
>> 005 20190315191317.0
>> 008 190315b ||||| |||| 00| 0 ger d
>> 040 _cOSt
>> 245 _aTest
>> 942 _2z
>> _cBK
>>
>> In fact it is missing
>>
>> 041 _ager
>>
>> Thus I tried using the MARC modification templates in Koha menu
"Tools >
>> Batch record modification", adding a template with the following
action
>> (as copied from the interface):
>>
>> Add new field 041$a with value ger if 008 matches RegEx
>> m/^...................................ger..$/
>>
>> When I run this action over the given record, Koha tells me that the
>> bibliographic record has successfully been modified - but in fact
>> nothing has changed.
>>
>> Besides it is not possible to unload that record using "Data
export",
>> but it is there an can be searched via staff client and OPAC.
>>
>> What is wrong with my evil doing? Is it something with my regular
>> expression?
>>
>> Best wishes: Michael
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Fachausweis
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>> T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E m...@adminkuhn.ch
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