[Koha-devel] [Koha-patches] Pull request: Bug 5528 analytical records

[Zeno Tajoli]

Hi to all,

I write a particial answer to those questions:

> 2) We both had some trouble figuring out how to use the new features. Is
> there any documentation?

I'm the volonteer to write documentation on the feature.
In fact the answer is no.
So a little documentation:

The feature is visible only if the preference 'EasyAnalyticalRecords' is
on yes.
The feature is for linking analitycal to their fathers.
So in fact it only insert a 773 (Marc21) / 461 (Unimarc) in the
analytical record.
The idea is that the anaytical record is not indipendent part of a host
record. For example an illustration inside a book.
So the analytical record not has items but you can use the item data of
the host.

This is why it used the barcode, it is the identifier of the item.
The only others identifier of the item is the itemnumber but is not a
clearly visible data for the librarian.

So the workflow that I image:
1)Librarian catalogues the host record at bibliographic level and add 1
o more items to it
2)Librarian insert the analytical record at bibliographic level, he
doesn't add an item
3)Librarian connects analytical with host reading the barcode with the
barcode reader.

> 3) The DB update needs to add subfields '0' and '9' to the 773 field.
> Otherwise, nothing works, and there's no indication why.
Right, those definitions are mandatory.

> 5) Using barcodes for linking is a little troubling, since some libraries
> with analytics may not have barcodes. It seems to me a good compromise would
> be to have the option to create links based on either the barcode or the
> 773$w.

In fact this feature si primary done to link a record with items (the
host) to records without items.
So if the library want to do link without barcodes, is better that setup
the preference 'EasyAnalyticalRecords' on 'NO'.

I think that links with bibliographic data are better done with Katrin
Fischer patch.

Bye
Zeno Tajoli
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