https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21472 --- Comment #5 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer@bsz-bw.de> --- (In reply to Laura Horgan from comment #4)
The marc tags for 776 |w are usually coming from OCLC and not something that is created by our librarians. I think the |w is looking for additional records within the KOHA system and we could use the |w for this if appropriate. When however, you want to send the patron out of the system I think the only way to do this would be to add a KOHA specific code that would allow you to include a link outside the catalog.
Hi Laura, if you don't want Koha to use the $w you can set the UseControlNumber preference accordingly. In our union catalog $w is also used for linking records, but when the linked record is also in Koha, the link works correctly. An example would be a 773$w => 001 link for an analytical and a serial record. At the moment this will only work, if you have 1 $w matching the 001 of another record. It could be discussed, how to improve this further. When I 'built' it, it was certainly influenced by the MARC records I knew from our environment and how I read the standard, but since I have been wondering :) We could also imagine changing the control-number search to a other-control-number search - this could be tested easily with jQuery and if it works better turned into a preference. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.