[Koha-bugs] [Bug 30154] AuthorityControlledIndicators copies empty indicators as space making it hard to edit in cataloguing

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30154

Janusz Kaczmarek <januszop at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Janusz Kaczmarek <januszop at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1)
> Hi Noemie, you described it perfectly and I can confirm the behavior on the
> latest development version as well.
> 
> I believe this is due to the AuthorityControlledIndicators system
> preference. It's defined there, that the second indicator will be copied
> from the authority record.
> 
> If you haven't set any indicator in the authority, it will copy a 'space'.
> As the input is set to only allow you to enter one character, it looks like
> you can't enter anything.
> 
> For the other fields you tested the second indicator is not taken from the
> authority, so that would explain the difference.
> 
> But: Click into the field and then hit backspace/delete the space. Then you
> can add your indicator.

I could only add that it is completely correct and wanted behavior.  Assuming
that we are in MARC 21 domain, in case of the bibliographic field 830 the
second indicator should be equal (and should be taken/copied) from the second
indicator of the field 130 of the linked authority record (cf.
https://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad130.html and
https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd830.html). 

Therefor it should be enough to set correctly the 2nd indicator in the entry
field (i.e. 130) of the authority record (checked in my test environment--works
like it should).

BTW, please, pay attention that according to MARC 21 definition, the second
indicator in the field 130 in the authority record should never be blank/empty.

To sum this up--IMHO, this is not a bug at all.

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