Bug 33704

Summary: Fixed length control fields does not save "Type of Material" when edited.
Product: Koha Reporter: Laura Escamilla <Laura.escamilla>
Component: CatalogingAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: CLOSED INVALID QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
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Priority: P5 - low CC: m.de.rooy
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Description Laura Escamilla 2023-05-09 20:27:28 UTC
To reproduce:
- Open the MARC structure for any bibliographic MARC framework
- Go to 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION and click on the tag editor
- Attempt to change the BKS - Books subfield to MX - Mixed materials; save the record. 
- View the completed record and note that the material type is still showing as "Text".
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2023-05-09 20:32:03 UTC
Hi Laura, this is one of those MARC things: you need to make sure that LDR Pos. 6 is set correctly, it determines what material type will be selected for 008.

See bug 19419 and and bug 30871 - maybe we need to add more hints?
Comment 2 Laura Escamilla 2023-05-10 12:19:17 UTC
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1)
> Hi Laura, this is one of those MARC things: you need to make sure that LDR
> Pos. 6 is set correctly, it determines what material type will be selected
> for 008.
> 
> See bug 19419 and and bug 30871 - maybe we need to add more hints?

Thanks, Katrin! It would definitely be helpful to have hints or more documentation available regarding this procedure.