[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11559] Professional cataloger's interface

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11559

--- Comment #109 from Jesse Weaver <jweaver at bywatersolutions.com> ---
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #103)
> Hm, I am not sure about only filling in the default values for mandatory
> fields - I think this is kind of confusing as the configuration options are
> not connected.

Well, mandatory subfields should trivially be filled in because they are added
to new/existing records if they do not exist. Before, they just got an empty
subfield (e.g., "245 _ _ $a"), but now, if the subfield has a default value, it
will be filled in.

For non-mandatory subfields, however, they could only be filled in after the
user entered them. For instance (where "|" is the user's cursor and 245$c has a
default value of "foobar"):

245 _ _ $a The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy /|
245 _ _ $a The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy /$|
245 _ _ $a The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy /$a|
245 _ _ $a The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy /$a |foobar

This might work, but I'm a bit hesitant to do this, seems a bit overly magical.
I know there's a number of catalogers CC'd on this bug; please, add your
thoughts!

Also, note that subfields with authorized values will have the default value
preselected if it exists.

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