On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:57:56PM -0700, Tonnesen Steve said:

What exactly is the "classification" field for? I'm having problems with modbibitem trouncing on my subclass. It appears that the "class" field in modbibitem.pl contains "$dewey$classification$subclass" and when an item has a subclass but no dewey, the classification gets set to the value that the subclass used to have and the subclass gets blanked out. I don't want to implement a fix for this that breaks whatever you are doing in NZ, but I don't understand why it is this way? Why doesn't modbibitem have separate fields for dewey, classification and subclass?

Hmmm Im struggling to remember. Im sure there must have been a reason I did it that way, probably not a good one tho, it certainly seems a stupid way to do it at first glance. My guess is that the librarians here thought of it as all one field, and so i tried to make it look like it was one. My inclination would be to fix it, and ill sneak the fix over to the library and see if anyone complains :-) Can always rollback to an earlier cvs version if they dont like it. Thanks Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz