[Koha-devel] Fixing holding info after an import

[Jesse Weaver]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Jason Macki <jmacki at iisd.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm doing an import from another library system to Koha version 3 on Linux.
>
> I used the bulkmarcimport.pl script to import the bibliographic
> information, populating the "biblio" and "biblioitems" tables. Then I ran a
> program to fill in the holding information by directly inserting rows into
> the "items" table.
>
> That worked, except that the "biblioitems" table has a field called
> "marcxml", which includes the holding information for that book.
>
> Now, if I use the Koha management application to edit and save a holding
> item, it fills in the holding information in the "marcxml" field of the
> corresponding "biblioitems" record, and the Koha features which depend on
> the holding information in the "marcxml" field work properly.
>
> My question is, is there a script in Koha 3 that will automatically put the
> holding information contained in the "items" table into the "marcxml" field
> of the "biblioitems" table?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Jason
>
>
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Yes, there is. misc/maintenance/sync_items_in_marc_bib.pl . Technically, the
way to import items is to have 952 holdings tags in the imported bib, but it
sounds like your method will work just fine.

-- 
Jesse Weaver
Software Developer, LibLime
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