[Koha-devel] repeated entries in biblioimages (record covers)

[Christopher Nighswonger]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Giuseppe Angilella <
Giuseppe.Angilella at ct.infn.it> wrote:

>
> I would now like to associate several (hundreds) records to the same cover
> image.
>
> (These are books belonging to an old collection, for which no ISBN exists
> and therefore no image is available on amazon, all sharing the same sort of
> cover jacket.)
>
> Should I enter the same cover image for each record separately, this would
> result in an unnecessary increase in the size of the biblioimages table,
> and therefore of the whole database.
>
> I wonder whether some sort of "aliasing" would be possible, in this case.
>
>
I'm not sure about that. I think it would take some additional coding.

A related question is also whether adding a cover image to a record could
> be performed routinely through an external script, rather than through the
> Koha staff browser, to expedite the procedure in the case of several
> records.
>

Have a look at
http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=tools/upload-cover-image.pl;h=1e6a1af8a5f30e37f7e328c4f0d36ab551f90ff3;hb=HEAD

Kind Regards,
Chris
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