https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31925

--- Comment #49 from David Cook <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Phil Ringnalda from comment #48)
> I didn't bring it up because I thought it was new behavior. I brought it up
> because it's the existing behavior which will impact workflows as a result
> of this patch.

Sure, there would be an impact, as there is a behaviour difference. I suppose a
person could argue that it needs a system preference, although at what point do
we draw a line under things...

> For as long as AutoCreateAuthorities has existed, it has created them
> ignoring the thesaurus in the bib record. If as one of my fellow catalogers
> does, you save a bib imported from OCLC and then delete all the headings in
> it from thesauri we don't use, then no matter which flavor of a heading came
> first our current install of Koha will create an LC authority record from
> it, and saving the authority record will at most (if some of the garbage
> wasn't deleted) change the thesaurus from one we don't use to the one we do
> use.

If you've deleted all the headings in the bib record from thesauri you don't
use, then why would you have an auto-generated authority for a thesaurus you
don't use?

> If this change applies to installs that don't use LinkerConsiderThesaurus as
> well as those that do, then those installs will have to notice that this bug
> landed, realize that it will be creating authorities from a thesaurus they
> don't want, and alter their system to always check the thesaurus for any
> newly created authority record before touching it. That would leave me
> having to remember to *always* switch to a different tab, and open up a
> popup window to be sure that I was looking at the correct space in a
> multicharacter string for an 'a' to be sure something else hadn't slipped
> in. I mark ones that I've checked, so I would only have to do that once, but
> for people who don't, they would need to do that every time. Or work out a
> way to find every authority record not in the thesaurus they want, and batch
> change them all, before any time they do any work that might result in
> saving an authority record.

If they're not noticing what thesaurus the heading of a copy catalogued record
has, I doubt that they'll notice or care what thesaurus is associated with
their authority record.

I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying here. Why would you need to
switch to a different tab and look at the 008 for an authority record? I would
assume that you'd know what thesaurus you use for your authority records. In
that case, the only issue would be auto-generated authorities for bib headings
associated with a different thesaurus. 

Auto-generated authority records are always a bit tough to control. That's why
they're not the best idea. 

But I'm still not sure what you're getting at here. Could you rephrase your
worry for your workflow?

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