http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5572
Jared Camins-Esakov <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #20 from Jared Camins-Esakov <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Tested your patch: it works as described. > > I see your point when you should clear a subfield at the authority side and > > you > > want to see the same at the biblio side. [How often would that happen?] > > Well, me myself was not convinced that it happens and that such a refinement > is is necessary--it was the library staff that told me it really happens > sometimes and demanded to make Koha to behave like described in the > proposal. It does not happen often perhaps, but if it happens then the > staff would have to edit even hundreds of biblio records by hand without > this refinement. > > > However, if the subfield was already empty at the authority side and you > > update > > the auth record, do you also want to clear at that moment any possible info > > in > > that subfield at the biblio side? > > Yes, because I was told this exactly means that the set of subfields of a > field in biblio is *controlled* by the authority record. In other words, if > a subfield can have a value in authority (in Koha: it is not in 'ignored' > state), then you are not supposed to edit it by hand in biblio. I do not > know if it is really so--I was told that. I do not think this is correct. Subfield 'e' is not authority-controlled, but Koha treats all non-numeric subfields in authority-controlled fields as if they are. Or am I misunderstanding what this bug does, and there is a workaround for this? > > > Does an empty authority subfield that is "not in the ignore tab" in the > > framework, really mean that that subfield should always be empty too at the > > biblio side? I am not sure about that; I will copy this comment to the Koha > > list for possible further discussion. > > At least this is what I was told. This means of course that with my > refinement you have to carefully check which subfields are active in the > authority framework, in order not to delete what you do not intend to. > > I will appreciate any comments. For now this is what was needed in my > library. I thought it worth to share this with others. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
