Re: [Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

2021-07-29 Thread Jon Witts
Hi Katrin, Thanks for the reply... After a bit of a baptism of fire learning about MARC records and how to use MARCEdit I think we are there... I have imported all the records that we could from our legacy system and we have a working Koha system now :-) Now we just need someone to take on the

Re: [Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

2021-07-24 Thread Himanshu Aggarwal
Ok, thanks. On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:09 PM Katrin Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > you can't map one MARC field to another, so I am not sure what you are > trying to do. But I think this would be a new question, so better to start > a new thread :) > > Katrin > > > On 24.07.21 17:35, Himanshu Aggarwal

Re: [Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

2021-07-24 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi, you can't map one MARC field to another, so I am not sure what you are trying to do. But I think this would be a new question, so better to start a new thread :) Katrin On 24.07.21 17:35, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote: But can we map 852$j to 952$j? On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:01 PM Katrin

Re: [Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

2021-07-24 Thread Himanshu Aggarwal
But can we map 852$j to 952$j? On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:01 PM Katrin Fischer wrote: > Hi Jon, > > just confirming you are on the right path there. While changing the item > mappings in Koha is possible, I'd always recommend against it. For > example you'd also have to change the indexing for

Re: [Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

2021-07-24 Thread Katrin Fischer
Hi Jon, just confirming you are on the right path there. While changing the item mappings in Koha is possible, I'd always recommend against it. For example you'd also have to change the indexing for Zebra/Elasticsearch to match your new fields. Converting your data to 952 is the better option.

Re: [Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

2021-07-16 Thread Jon Witts
OK, so answering myself... I think I have got it to work now as best as I can... I imported the MARC export from our legacy system into MARCEdit, had to then verify it and remove invalid records. I could then use MARCEdit's switch fields tool and replace subfields tools to create the required 952

[Koha] New Koha install - legacy import question

2021-07-16 Thread Jon Witts
Hi there, I am a new Koha user and have just set up and installed a new Koha instance for our school library. We are running on a single Ubuntu server and I followed the Ubuntu/ Debian install documentation and installed from the packages. I am now trying to import our catalogue from our legacy