[Koha-patches] [PATCH] [HEAD] (bug #3170) check if mandatory fields are not empty

[Nahuel ANGELINETTI]

Hi,

Le Mon, 11 May 2009 11:08:24 -0400,
Galen Charlton <galen.charlton at liblime.com> a écrit :

> Hi Nahuel,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Nahuel ANGELINETTI
> <nahuel.angelinetti at biblibre.com> wrote:
> > This patch make authority and biblio add/edit to check that at
> > least one subfield of mandatory fields are filled-in.
> 
> I discovered the following problems during testing - please work on
> this and resubmit:
> 
> [1] The patch had no discernible effect on editing bib records.  When
> I marked a field as required (but none of its subfields), the editor
> would still let me save a bib record even if I hadn't entered any data
> into any of the tag's subfields.

This is very strange, because I have not this issue. If I have only
one field which is mandatory, without any mandatory subfield, and no
data, the editor don't let me save the record. So I don't know what's
happening.

> [2] When editing authority records, the patch *did* catch when a
> mandatory field had no content in any of its subfields.  However, it
> goes too far - for mandatory variable control fields (tags < 010) that
> do not have subfields, it prevents you from saving a record because it
> can't find any subfields for them, even though those fields by
> definition don't have subfields.

So, why are they mandatory?

bests,

-- 
Nahuel ANGELINETTI