https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=27738 Bug ID: 27738 Summary: Fix fallback for unset DefaultCountryField008 system preference Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: Cataloging Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: phil@chetcolibrary.org QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org CC: m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl Depends on: 13912 Bug 13912 added DefaultCountryField008 to allow defaulting the place of publication to something other than the previous default of xxu ("somewhere in the United States, but I don't know what state"). Trying to follow the Koha Way of never changing existing behavior, only adding a preference to fix it, it intended to fall back to xxu, but https://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=cataloguing/value... thought the preference would be undefined if it wasn't set, and then a QA followup updated the DB to add it so it's always defined, and the // "xxu" is unreached and the default value of the pref, '', gets space-padded to three characters long, ' '. Since we've now gone 3.3 years with the default having switched from the unfortunate choice of 'xxu' to the invalid ' ' without anyone filing a bug about it, I assert that the Koha Way is wrong in this case, that nobody actually wanted to retain the behavior of defaulting to saying that every book was published in an unknown US state (or if they did exist, they already fixed it by using that as their DefaultCountryField008), and we can fix the bug of defaulting to an invalid value by choosing a new default when DefaultCountryField008 isn't set, the value "|||" which is "no attempt to code" which is precisely the case when the cataloger doesn't change it and the system adminstrator doesn't say it should have a particular value whether or not that value is correct. Referenced Bugs: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13912 [Bug 13912] Add syspref for default place of publication (country code) for field 008, range 15-17 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.