[Koha-devel] Rancor/Advanced MARC Editor templates?

[Andrew Fuerste-Henry]

Hi David,

Could macros do what you're looking for here? Create a macro for each type
of record that inserts all of the blank fields you need for that type?

Andrew

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:37 PM <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> Is it possible to define templates for Rancor/Advanced MARC Editor?
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> On systems like Horizon, it’s possible to have different templates, so
> cataloguers can at a glance see what fields they need to fill in for a
> particular type of record (e.g. book vs journal vs dvd).
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> If it’s not possible, I want to make it possible, but I’m not sure if we
> should use the “Editor” setting in MARC Bibliographic Frameworks, or create
> a new feature for providing Rancor Templates.
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> Personally, I’ve always hated how MARC Bibliographic Frameworks act as
> both Editor templates (for rendering HTML) and data filters (ie if the
> field is not in the framework, it gets stripped out of the record at save
> time).
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> In my ideal world, editor templates and data filters would be 2 separate
> features. For Rancor, I think MARC Bibliographic Frameworks already act as
> data filters, and it would be backwards incompatible to use them for
> templates as well, so adding a new feature for Rancor templates is probably
> the logical conclusion?
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> David Cook
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