IRC log for #koha, 2006-03-19

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11:20 pierrick I'm trying to understand how authorities work in Koha, I have a question
11:22 pierrick In Koha database (branch 2.2), for a given author name, where do I find rejected and official value ?
11:22 pierrick For instance, I want to see all rejected value of a given author name
11:22 paul you just have to see authority detail.
11:23 paul in biblio, only the "accepted form" is stored.
11:23 paul everything else is in the authority itself.
11:23 paul it's quite strange for a developper, as it's not really correct
11:24 paul we would store only the # of authority in the biblio.
11:24 paul to create the relationship.
11:24 paul but librarians decided to store the # + the main entry field (name+surname+dob+title...)
11:24 pierrick OK... so the join is not made with authority id...
11:25 pierrick thus duplicating information...
11:25 paul yes but no.
11:25 paul the join is made with authority id.
11:25 paul + information duplicated.
11:25 paul in unimarc, the join is in $3 in biblio
11:25 paul in marc21, it's "where the local system want to put it" => not in the standard
11:26 paul (thus you're right for marc21, but wrong for unimarc in fact)
11:26 pierrick OK, I'm searching in the database where are the informations you just gav me :-)
11:27 paul auth_*_tables for authorities.
11:29 pierrick thank you paul, I'm querying my local EMP database :-)
11:50 pierrick :-/ browsing MARCdetail.pl, some field are linked to an authority. Say authority 3537 (ENVIRONNEMENT). How do I see rejected forms of the authority ? In fact, I'm confused because I thought an authority was a list of forms with one accepted form and N rejected forms. It's not so simple :-/
11:51 paul in opac or librarian interface ?
11:51 paul in librarian you should have an "authority" button
11:51 paul that reaches the authority
11:51 paul for EMN, you DON'T have complete authorities.
11:51 paul you just have accepted form !
11:51 pierrick librarian
11:52 paul so don't look for rejected form, there is no !
11:52 pierrick OK... I could search long time...
12:07 pierrick in any tag, $3 subfield is always internal Koha related?
12:15 pierrick (in unimarc)
12:16 paul no, it's unimarc standard
14:01 paul what is the channel on freenode for perl4lib ?
14:03 pierrick irc.freenode.net
14:03 paul yep, my problem was the chanel : it's ok, i just had forgotten the # : #code4lib
14:04 pierrick paul: sorry, I had read the question too quickly
14:06 paul lol
14:06 pierrick_dummy when modifying an authority type, the help label next to field "Report tag" is "Enter here the number of the tag that will be reported in the biblio (subfield by subfield). For example, in UNIMARC, enter 200 to report every 200 subfield in the 70x biblio". I'm sorry, but where is the logic? :-/
14:06 hdl test
14:06 kados morning fellas
14:06 pierrick_dummy alpha tango charlie
14:07 pierrick_dummy 'morning kados
14:08 pierrick_dummy can I make a proposition to modify database update script? (based on the work I've made on another projct)
14:08 hdl morning Big Man.
14:08 kados pierrick_dummy: sure
14:10 pierrick_dummy summarize before proposing on koha-devel : instead of a big updatedatabase script, having N scripts that can be execute only once. We store in db the upgrades already executed. When a new upgrade script is available (after a cvs update), you're notified in intranet screen that N upgrade are missing.
14:13 pierrick_dummy this kind of simple scripts : http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/php[…]trunk/install/db/
14:15 pierrick paul: what do you think of my proposal? (you can think it's useless, that won't hurt me ;-)
14:15 paul nope. I think it's a good idea.
14:16 paul everything that makes install/upgrade more friendly is good !
14:18 pierrick the drawback of my proposal is that you can't execute upgrades twice (but it's a wanted behaviour, to simplify things a lot, and sometimes executing more than once is dangerous)
14:21 paul some years ago I wrote such a script.
14:21 paul the DB version was embeeded in the database itself (as unmodifiable systempref for example)
14:21 paul when you want to upgrade, the script checks what is already done, what is to be done.
14:22 pierrick exactly what I did elsewher
14:22 pierrick It works great I must admit
14:24 pierrick kados: what's the difference between "upgrade" and "update" ?
14:27 owen update is usually smaller, more incremental
14:32 pierrick OK, thank you owen
17:51 thd kados: I sent you an improved bibliographic framework

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