Intro and question
Hello all, I realized I had never introduced myself on this list. I am the "do everything" guy at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. We are a non-profit research facility and have an on-campus library where we are currently running Koha. I am responsible for all computer support, networks, servers, etc. on campus except for our public web site - that is handled by a couple of other very capable guys. As such I get into programming infrequently, but have enough of a history coding in different languages that I can usually figure out what I need to do by hitting online references and such. I would definitely not characterize myself as a full time developer, but feel comfortable tweaking existing code to get things working the way we want. On our current Koha install I modified the xsl files to display links stored in the 856u field as images instead of text link, a feature our librarian wanted to function on a particular database that she is using to catalog some archival photos. I am now working on getting this working in a way that I can contribute back and hopefully have integrated into Koha - see bug 5738. I have this working for the MARC21 files - I got it working on the OPAC last week and on the Staff Client today, but also wanted to get the unimarc files modified as well. I have done some coding but realized I needed to test this. And here is my question. I did another DEV install, and chose unimarc during the when answering the questions. That question only seemed to apply to zebra though. Looking at the koha-conf.xml it looks like it is pointing to the MARC21 xsl files. What do I need to do to get a unimarc dev install working? I have not yet connected to the admin page as I didn't want to populate the database with MARC21 info. Does it happen automatically there? Any guidance appreciated. Thanks, Doug Dearden Director, IT School for Advanced Research (505)954-7220 sarweb.org
Hi Doug, 2011/2/14 Doug Dearden <dearden@sarsf.org>:
I have this working for the MARC21 files – I got it working on the OPAC last week and on the Staff Client today, but also wanted to get the unimarc files modified as well. I have done some coding but realized I needed to test this. And here is my question. I did another DEV install, and chose unimarc during the when answering the questions. That question only seemed to apply to zebra though. Looking at the koha-conf.xml it looks like it is pointing to the MARC21 xsl files. What do I need to do to get a unimarc dev install working? I have not yet connected to the admin page as I didn’t want to populate the database with MARC21 info. Does it happen automatically there? Any guidance appreciated.
Good on you for thinking of the UNIMARC users. In this case, the references to the MARC21 stylesheets that you see even after choosing UNIMARC can be ignored for your immediate purposes. They are used only if you are using requesting on-the-fly conversion of the MARC records to other formats such as RDF, MODS, and so forth from Koha's Z39.50 server. However, Koha's OPAC itself doesn't use that functionality, so if you're working on the OPAC display XSLT, the fact that you chose UNIMARC during installation is enough to get Koha to point to the correct stylesheets. Obviously, it *is* a bug that the stylesheets referenced in koha-conf.xml don't have UNIMARC equivalents, but that's a bug that quite possibly has never been encountered in practice. For your reference, what it's doing is checking the marcflavour system preference to determine if the database is UNIMARC or MARC21. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt@gmail.com
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