Golly Paul! When you say that the volunteer deleted a loc value of rare book room, are you referring to the authorised value of rare book room? If so, then you should be able to simply re-add a location of rare book room to the authorised value list and be ok. When an authorised value is deleted, it does not delete the data in the items table (items.location)
I'm not sure what you mean when you say "so I can't "re-enter" the auth value which is no longer available for admin editing" This is not been my experience with the authorised_values list. Are you finding data on a query like this? select barcode from items where location =<enter the code you used for rarebooks> or select distinct(location) from items -which will show you all the location values in use in the database. -joy On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Paul A <[email protected]> wrote: > Please can one of you assist? > > We are in the middle of shelving several hundred boxes of books, and seven > volunteer cataloguers have spent the day editing items to change the auth > value "loc" from "box_xyz" to the proper shelf/stack. > > At the end of the day, an enthusiastic volunteer instead of deleting an > empty box from the "loc" values, accidentally deleted our "rare book room" > (my fault, I gave him superlibrarian credentials instead of doing the job > myself.) > > A search still finds: "628 result(s) found for 'mc-loc=2fl_rare' in NMA > Catalog" but this is (I think) coming from somewhere other than > items.location. > > An sql query [SELECT * FROM authorised_values WHERE category='loc'] still > finds the auth value: ... > 1834 loc fl2_rare 2nd floor rare 2nd floor rare > ... > so I can't "re-enter" the auth value which is no longer available for admin > editing; so "editing" these 628 items is impossible. The OPAC is no longer > showing the location at all. > > The "catastrophe level" is that even if I revert to last nights backup, the > volunteers tell me they have no way to pull them all (about 3,000 books) out > and start over again. > > Can anyone, pretty please, suggest a course of action? > > Many thanks -- Paul > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
