https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15503 --- Comment #53 from Kyle M Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com> --- (In reply to Matthias Meusburger from comment #50)
Hi,
I couldn't reproduce any of the problems you mentioned on my Unimarc instance, so I ended up setting up a MARC21 instance using your values for the syspref and your marc files, and... I couldn't reproduce any of the problems (see screen captures), except one:
BOOKBAG itype is indeed not automatically selected, but this is because there is a trailing space in the BOOKBAG 975$c in your MARC file.
I don't know if Koha should assume that a trailing space in a field is irrelevant and remove it, but the fact is that they are not technically equal. So, no pre-selection.
I would agree with that. Koha shouldn't munge the data. If there is a trailing space it should be dealt with preferably at the source. A couple other possibilities would be to use a Marc Modification Template or a plugin to clean up the records. We shouldn't have magic side effects in Koha. Those types of things lead to confusion. The next library might rely on a trailing space and have no idea why it's not working ;) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.