Hi Marcel, I write to you and here same thoughts about defaults of indicators for auth merges. You say: "We actually need framework default indicators first to address merges crossing the authtype border correctly". As start we need to remember that indicators for Auth are different from Biblio indicators (see bug 14769). I think this true only for this specific case: auth 'A' type '1' merge auth 'B' type '2' = auth 'CC' type '3' in case auth 'A' type '1' merge auth 'B' type '2' = auth 'CC' type '1' we need to use indicators of auth 'A' The code of bug 9701 is about Biblio indicators. We need new code, in different .pl, and new columns, in different tables, for authority. Bye Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli /SVILUPPO PRODOTTI CINECA/ - Automazione Biblioteche Email: z.tajoli@cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198 *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI)