[Koha-devel] a few koha questions

[Paul A]

On 2018-01-24 01:12 PM, Johan Seyfferdt wrote:

Skipping directly to your "secondly" (and you might get a wider response 
on the "Koha" (users) list rather than Koha-devel):
> When our librarian is adding books, she only have a list of pblishers 
> and atohrs, and she was wondering if we can create like a dropdown menus 
> for those fields that she doesnt have to type it every time but simply 
> choose what she wants?

You do not give the size of your holdings, but, while an author and or 
publisher drop-down might be (technically, code-wise) possible, you 
would end up with something so long it would be unusable.

For authors -- you most probably have them as an "authority", so just 
use "tag editor" icon at the end of 100$a

As to publisher, we do not declare them as authorities (maybe other 
libraries do) because there is so much variation as to legal/declared 
name (and if you include place of publication it gets worse.) Once in a 
while we do a "tidy up", which finds a few typos and minor variations 
which we manually correct, but we still end up with more than is 
practicable for a drop-down:

mysql> SELECT distinct(publishercode) from biblioitems;
/..../
14856 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Best -- Paul