Hi, You can do it by binding the 020$a input field with a js keydown / keyup event to throw that alert / hint on the UI
Although tbh, this is something that a professional cataloger is supposed to know, which i understand you are not (appreciate your effort to learn though :-). Cheers Indranil. On Sat, 21 May, 2022, 4:01 pm C.S. Hayward, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for clarifying! > > I no longer think that hyphens should be accepted and ignored, but putting > some message like a good UX password field's "Caps lock is on" would help > people like me realize that I'm not supposed to enter hyphens. > > Br. C.S. Hayward, c-s-hayward.com > > > ------- Original Message ------- > On Friday, May 20th, 2022 at 11:44 AM, Hernandez, Heather H < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, C.S.! > > Hyphens are never entered into the 020 ISBN field of a MARC record--they > are specifically prohibited, actually--c.f.:MARC 21 Format for > Bibliographic Data: 020: International Standard Book Number (Network > Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress) (loc.gov) > > > > So all library systems, including Koha, are designed to deal with them > without hyphens, and the MARC format instructs that hyphens may be > generated for display. The hyphens are only for humans, dividing the ISBN > into its components of country of publication, publisher, then publication > number. > > So since the MARC Format instructs we humans to omit the hyphens, I > would argue that there's no UX enhancement needed to instruct the software > to ignore the hyphens--that's the way the software is supposed to be > designed. And if a human does include the hyphens and the search fails > because of the hyphens, perhaps we should be improving the instructions to > humans to omit the hyphens? > > Cheerio!h2 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > Ms. Heather Hernandez (she, her, hers) > > Technical Services Librarian > > Library catalog: https://keys.bywatersolutions.com/ > > San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center > > 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284 > > 415-561-7032 (office generally M-W, telecommuting Th-F) > > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
