[Koha-devel] Question about Duplicating Cataloging Fields

[Bernard Shiundu]

Good of you to raise this. I for one would also like to get a blank field when hitting the plus sign and an option of simply deleting a field - though I do know that for fields which are not mandatory - it is enough to leave it blank and it will 'disappear' on save which is how I've been working this thus far (but ideally I think one shouldn't have mandatory fields duplicatable in their framework - but that's just me again :) ) .

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Bernard Shiundu
Strathmore University Library

> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org [mailto:koha-devel-
> bounces at lists.koha.org] On Behalf Of Nicole Engard
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 1:36 PM
> To: koha-devel at lists.koha.org
> Subject: [Koha-devel] Question about Duplicating Cataloging Fields
>
> Hi all,
>
> I submitted a bug report:
> http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2123 but I want
> to check with all of you to see what you expect the functionality of
> the plus sign in the cataloging module to be.  Here's what my bug
> says:
>
> "If I hit a plus on a field with a value in it it creates a dup of that
> field -
> I just want a blank field .. in particular when I hit a plus next to an
> authorized value because there is no way to erase the data and start
> fresh - I
> have to replace it with another authorized value."
>
> Basically, I wanted to add another subject heading to a MARC record I
> was editing but when I hit the plus it duplicated the field and I
> wasn't able to alter the data in the field without picking another
> authorized subject heading - what if I didn't have an authorized
> heading for that field? For this reason I suggest that the field be
> blank when hitting a plus - or that we have the option of either
> duplicating or creating a blank new field.
>
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