hi Ingrid, getting these parameters right is a bit confusing and caused us some experimenting before we got it to pass MARCcheck. first, you use the parameters page in the third section (Various parameters) to set up _Library branches_. this list contains all the possible locations that items may be held and our list contains 90 locations such as Main, Main New Books, Reference, Maps, Maps Atlas Case, Entomology, Herpetology, Ichthylology, Ichthyol Vault, Mammal. & Ornith., M&O Reference, M&O Sound Recordings, M&O Locked Case, Morrison Planetarium, Stienhart Aquarium, Aquarium Herp Room, Aquarium Pathol. Office, Special Coll. Books, Pub. Programs Division, Technical Services, Operations, Osher Lab, Ichthyol Folios, Aquarium Locked Case, S.E.M. Lab, and even Location Varies. so you can see that the holdings are divided into many locations here, while some organizations might choose very few locations identified by their street address. but at any rate, the branch table must be filled by editing the parameter page. in our case Larry Currie has made the mapping into tag 949, but you can map to any tag subfield. here 949 subfield g has lib: "Home branch code in Koha", koha field: "items.homebranch", Rep: No, Mand: No, Tab: 10, and Auth value: branches. note that by chosing Tab: 10, we then are able to select from the list of Authorized Values to record in the database the value of the Home branch. since you have chosen not to display the subfield, then you wouldn't have any way to enter this information. likewise 949 subfield l has Lib: "Holding brance code in Koha", koha field: "items.hodingbranch", Rep: No, Mand: No, Tab: 10, and Auth value: branches. in your entries, i suggest changing the tag from "Ignore" to "10". in addition, since there is a separate record for each book or other item, i don't think you want to set Repeatable to Yes, since an instance of an item should never appear in more than one location at the same time :-). see if that helps squash out the MARCcheck error. -ron On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Ingrid Lacis wrote:
I tried figuring this out myself and reading previous postings on this subject but ---
Koha tells me (MARCcheck) that for MARC21 homebranch and holdingbranch are not mapped. That I must have both mapped to a MARC subfield and the corresponding subfield must have authorised value= branches.
In MARC subfield structure admin for 995 I have c holdingbranch items.holdingbranch Yes No -1 branches d homebranch items.homebranch Yes No -1 branches
What am I doing wrong?
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