[Koha-devel] Create a new column in biblio table for opac visibiliy status

[Mathieu Saby]

Hi
I have a project about making more easy to hide/unhide records on the 
OPAC (without having to edit the record in cataloguing mode).
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9778
In the discussion with Fridolyn Somers, the idea of creating first a new 
column in biblio table for storing the "OPAC visibiliy" status appeared.
It is not *stricty *needed but I imagine it could be used by other 
enhancements later.

The issue is that there no field used universally in UNIMARC for storing 
the visibility information (for ex. in our library we have a non 
standard field for that, so our Zebra record.abs is specific for this 
point).:-(
So to take advantage of this change, libraries (maybe only Unimarc 
libraries?) which will upgrade to 3.14 will need
- to map their frameworks with the new field in sql database, so that 
Koha could know which MARC field is used to store the information.
- then, to run a script - once for all - for updating this new field in 
sql database

As it will imply manual operations after upgrade, I wanted to get the 
opinion of the RM fist.
So, Galen, have you got some objections or comments?

Mathieu Saby
Rennes 2 university



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