[Koha-devel] biblioitems marc and marcxml

[Bob Birchall]

On 06/03/15 10:10, Paul A wrote:
> Good morning|evening to you all. I'm looking for some help please for 
> a problem [1] that has surfaced concerning "advanced search" (OPAC and 
> staff) by "Shelving location" and by "Collection Code".
>
> I can't find an bugs relating to this. 
> <http://perldoc.koha-community.org/C4/Biblio.html> states:
> When dealing with items, we must :
> /.../
> 3. overwrite the MARC record (with the added item) into 
> biblioitems.marc(xml)
>
> but I can't easily find where or how marc(xml) gets *updated*... and 
> I'm not even certain that this is not an "error" left over from 3.6 
> two years ago
>
> I can do a certain amount directly in MySQL (painstaking 
> UPDATE...SET...REPLACE), but additionally, we have many 
> biblioitems.marc(xml) which do *not* contain 952$c or $8 data at all. 
> Since upgrade to 3.8? if 3.6 didn't put them there, I have no idea how 
> they got there ;={
>
> Importantly, should 952$c and 952$8 even be present in 
> biblioitems.marc(xml)? (The advanced search uses these apparently 
> unedited data in preference to items.location and items.ccode)

Items data were removed from the marcxml for performance reasons, at 
Koha 3.4.  Any version above 3.2 should have no 952 data in the marcxml.

Bob Birchall
Calyx