13.1. Редагування сторінки з підполями

Holy drop down menus, Batman! Hang in there, you will not need to see any of these pages with a great degree of frequency after the first couple of days. Again we see that the first column on the left corresponds to the piece of the MARC record we are working on. Which is still 100a if you haven’t been paying attentiion. It says "Personal name" next to it. It has Koha field biblio.author assigned to it. We’re doing great!

Then once again, there is the appearance of the mysterious tag field. Remember all of those -1s on the previous page? When you get to the edit subfields page, the drop down menus for all of those -1s read "ignore". My drop down menu tab for 100a is set to 2.

What this corresponds to is when I:

go all the way back to the very first lime green Intranet page select Catalogue search from the top select Add biblio from the navigation bar at the top middle of the page and then find a title for a record that is in the breeding farm and click okay a lime green bar will appear that reads "MARC biblio:"

Underneath that bar there is a bunch of numbers. If I select 2 by clicking on the blue 2

Viola! I will see our friendly neighbourhood 100a field.

Now that was a lot of steps to go through. However, you practically only need to do this the first few days you have Koha as you decide which fields you want to see first when you edit or add a bibliographic record.

You need to repeat this process for every subfield you wish to be able to edit. It is tedious, but worth it. This lets you pick exactly what fields you would like and in what order you wish them to appear. You can always go back later and change these tabs if you decide you want to edit a field. However, if you think things through first, you will save yourself from a lot of retroactive cataloguing.

I strongly suggest you review your cataloguing, because there are a lot of new neat features to MARC, such as the 856u field. I am a big fan of using this field in Koha. It shows up in the Koha OPAC as a link to a URL which your patrons can click on right from a book’s catalogue record. Quite often it’s a link to a summary of the book.

This is the hardest thing to figure out after you install Koha. So, if you get used to this part, it’s all down hill. :)