[Koha-bugs] [Bug 34687] New: Displaying multiple 264 to show publication history

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34687

            Bug ID: 34687
           Summary: Displaying multiple 264 to show publication history
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           Product: Koha
           Version: 21.11
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: MARC Bibliographic data support
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: h.jones at ghil.ac.uk
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

Display all 264 regardless of value of first indicator 

The first indicators for 264 are currently defined (MARC21 website) as:
# - Not applicable/No information provided/Earliest
2 - Intervening
3 - Current/Latest

In Koha (according to a patch from Bug 14734), first indicator = 3 trumps all
other options and actually suppresses all other 264, which, if you are using
the indicators properly, removes most of the publication history. This is very
unhelpful, particularly in journals records.

If I want to have all the previous publication history displayed, then I need
to code the first indicator of the most recent publisher as something other
than 3 (which is technically wrong) so that I don't loose the previous
publication info. This is really counter-intuitive. The indicators should be
used for their intended purpose rather than as a suppression tool.

Could this patch be reversed so that the indicators function to display the
complete publication history?

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