[Koha-devel] Linking Marc fields to custom table fields

[Toni Rosa]

Hello,
 
I have just posted a related question, but to keep it simpler I post a 
new message for this one.
 
I wanted to show the field 17$a in the "normal" view of a biblio. I 
think I could do something like searching in the $record->fields 
structure until I found the desired 17$a field and then pass it back to 
the template inside the "catalogue/detail.pl"... But my question is, Is 
there a better way of doing it?  
 
Trying to solve it, I have also tried another approach that didn't 
work... I tried to add a field to the table biblio (named, for instance 
"17a") and using the "MARC Links" section of koha I assigned it to the 
17$a MARC field. The problem is that it never gets informed even when 
the 17$a MARC field is perfectly filled for the biblio. I expected that 
whenever my custom field (the "biblio.17a" field I created) got filled, 
then as the "$dat" var that gets filled with the method "GetBiblioData" 
that returns all biblio fields, I could retrieve it from the template by 
name. In this case my question is, Is this approach completely wrong?  
 
Regards,
 
Toni