Thank you for the hints, I think I'd better wait until my IT wizard has a few minutes to look this over. Indexing the field may be the best way to cope with this particular problem. . . .so much to learn! Elaine
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Tomas Cohen Arazi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Elaine Bradtke <[email protected]> wrote: >> If I had understood at the outset that 561 was not searchable by mere >> mortals, I wouldn't have put important information in there. Live and >> learn. >> Now I'm trying to extract it, and put it somewhere else, specifically, >> in the item record, subfield 8. >> Before I do that, I need to know how to find the biblios with >> information in the 561 fields, and if possible, search by specific >> information in this field, so I can split them up into 'collections' >> >> Any help, in as plain, ordinary language as possible, would be most welcome. >> Unfortunately my IT guru is up to his eyeballs in his day job, and I >> need to fix this problem before it gets any bigger. >> Thanks! > > In '/etc/koha/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs' add something like > melm 561$a Ownership-Custodial-History > > and to '/etc/koha/zebradb/biblios/etc/bib1.att', something like: > > att 8040 Ownership-Custodial-History > > Then rebuild your indexes. > To+ > -- 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 ext 36 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
