[Koha-bugs] [Bug 19419] 008 Material type reverts Book

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19419

--- Comment #6 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---

I got from your comments that this was a serious problem discussed in several
places, but it took me a while to understand the exact issue (and I hope I did)
I think a step by step test plan would help 'outsiders' of the discussion and
devs who are not so familiar with library workflows to grasp the actual
problem.

To test:
- Open any record in the advanced catalouging editor
- Change 008 to anything but BKS
- Save - if there is an error, for example 003 missing, it will rever to BKS
- Fix any errors
- Save to catalog again - verify it also reverted to BKS in display

It seems that this is also an issue for the normal editor:

- Open any record in cataloguing
- Switch 008 to anything but BKS
- Close the plugin
- Open it again - it shows BKS

I am not sure about the MARC standard here, it seems that the actual selection
is not part of the MARC record and I found no reference to another field this
could be pulled from. So I think this is the reason it was initially marked an
enhancement - the correct pull down value is not saved in the record, so it
cannot be determined/preselected when the record is opened again. (see 
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008.html)

Would it help if 'none' was preselected?

Another possibility could be to save the value separately from the MARC record
in the db and pull from there. 

Does someone know how other ILS solve this?

I believe the 'icon' issue noted in the Description is unrelated - for the
icons a combination of LDR, 007 and 008 are used. The value selected in the
first pull down of 008 is not part of the data, so it cannot be used for
display (and not break it)

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