Bug 37422

Summary: Add another normalization rule to ignore trailing spaces in Record Matching Rules
Product: Koha Reporter: Enica Davis <enica>
Component: CatalogingAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: esther.melander, m.de.rooy, mspinney
Version: unspecified   
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Description Enica Davis 2024-07-22 16:39:20 UTC
In this specific scenario, libraries using a third-party vendor for authority and bib updates would sometimes have trailing spaces in the update file for the matching point (i.e. 010$a for authority).  When the existing Koha data doesn't have space, it makes matching and cataloging maintenance a bit difficult.

Right now, the work around for these libraries is to cleanup existing data (either add or remove the space - in most cases, remove space) and making sure that the incoming data will find a match.

It would be nice if we could add another normalization rule to ignore trailing spaces in Record Matching Rules.