[Koha-bugs] [Bug 7345] Should be possible to export MARC records without private fields

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7345

--- Comment #10 from Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins at cpbibliography.com> 2011-12-16 12:39:44 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> OK, but I still don't see what to do with this patch: if it changes nothing
> practically, why applying it ?

Because if you don't apply it, people can't use /cgi-bin/koha/opac-export.pl to
provide standard-compliant MARC to other programs. This is a programmer's
feature, but no less valid for that, in my opinion. I use it with a non-Koha
utility script that retrieves records from Koha for further processing and
display.

> I was expecting a syspref for example, to decide wether to export or no 9
> fields. Or some checkbox on opac-export script, to let user decide.
> Or something like that.

This would be possible, but I am disinclined to try and build consensus about
the proper way to handle this in the user interface. Obviously no one is
bothered by the fact that Koha by default offers non-standard-compliant MARC
for download. Even with no changes to existing functionality, getting consensus
on adding this to Koha is taking a while.

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