[Koha-devel] bulkmarcimport.pl in Koha/3

[Chris Cormack]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:
> Galen Charlton wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:
>>> Can someone with the knowledge point me in the right direction to getting
>>> bulkmarcimport.pl working in Koha/3?
>>
>> Well, bulkmarcimport.pl is not terminally broken in Koha 3.0, as we
>> use it all them time, so I suspect that the issue is data-dependent.
>> Could you send the three sample MARC records you tried to load?
>
> And so right you are :)
>
> The rewrite of bulkmarcimport.pl in K3 has introduced a more stringent
> examination and rejection of malformed MARC records.
>
> In previous version of Koha, we were not providing the field indicators.
>
> In K3 we must provide these in the MARC records.
>
> bulkmarcimport.pl could be updated to provide better error reporting ;)
>

You know where to send patches to Rick :)

Chris