Re: [Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

2020-07-09 Thread Charles Kelley
Hello, Elaine, et al! In our latest exchange, on 10 July 2020, at 3:42 AM, you wrote: If you can see the 949$c in MarcEdit, you can change it there. I'm pretty > sure I did this to a batch of records, but it was quite a while ago. > I don't believe that 949$c and the framework are

Re: [Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

2020-07-09 Thread Elaine Bradtke
If you can see the 949$c in MarcEdit, you can change it there. I'm pretty sure I did this to a batch of records, but it was quite a while ago. Elaine Bradtke VWML Our income is severely diminished in these exceptionally uncertain times. Please help us to survive beyond this national crisis.

Re: [Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

2020-07-09 Thread Charles Kelley
Hello again, all! In an earlier exchange, on 7 July 2020 at 09:51, I wrote: I do have a follow-up question: Is it possible in Koha to change a framework > of a group records en masse? For example, if I have a group of 747 maps > (949 $c = "MAP") but their framework is BKS, can I change

Re: [Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

2020-07-06 Thread Eric Bégin
Hi Charles, As far as I know, there is no way to change the records framework in batch editing. If I had to do it, I would update the data directly in the database. The framework is defined as the 'frameworkcode' column of the 'biblio' table. Hope that helps ! Eric On 7/6/2020 8:51 PM,

Re: [Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

2020-07-06 Thread Charles Kelley
Hi, all! In our earliest exchange, on 6 Jul 2020 at 14:09, I wrote among other things: >I have been looking for an answer to the following question, but I've > been unable to find one: What are the purpose and use of the frameworks? > [etc., etc., etc.] In an exchange on 6 Jul

Re: [Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

2020-07-06 Thread John Sterbenz
Frameworks give me the ability to do something I wished my previous catalog could do but didn't--customized OPAC and staff-side field labels (all the way down to the subfield level, which is a really nice bonus). While the "provided" ones focus on format, you have the ability to create brand new

Re: [Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

2020-07-06 Thread Caroline Cyr-La-Rose
Hi Charles, Frameworks are cataloguing "forms". You can use many different ones or just the default one. The advantage of using different ones is that you can show different MARC fields and add default values. For example, you can have one 'Book' framework, where you would show 020

[Koha] Frameworks and Their Purpose

2020-07-05 Thread Charles Kelley
Hi, all! I have been looking for an answer to the following question, but I've been unable to find one: What are the purpose and use of the frameworks? I just don't understand. When I cataloged in a previous library job, I didn't have frameworks. I just cataloged what I needed and if I