Bug 5068

Summary:	in add MARC record interface, concatenation of repeatable subfields in subject heading tags
Product:	Koha	Reporter:	Christopher Chagal <chagal>
Component:	Cataloging	Assignee:	Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Severity:	critical
Priority:	P3	CC:	chagal, chris, cnighswonger, jcamins, koha.sekjal, lculber
Version:	3.4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Christopher Chagal 2010-07-28 15:29:38 UTC

pages involved:
cgi-bin/koha/authorities/auth_finder.pl
cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl

In the add MARC record interface, repeated subfields from subject headings (imported from authorities) are being added to one subfield field, separated by a pipe, rather than being distributed to multiple subfields.  In addition, these subfields are being placed in an arbitrary order, rather than the order in which they appear in the authority record.

For instance, adding the subject "a$United States $xHistory $yCivil War, 1861-1865 $xCampaigns $vPictorial works" is instead entered into the new MARC record as "a$United States $vPictorial works $xHistory|Campaigns $yCivil War, 1861-1865."

Our catalogers also report that records imported from Z39.50 exhibit the same behavior if their subject fields contain repeated subfields.

We're running 3.00.05.001 (on Debian Lenny), but I was able to duplicate the bug on http://staff.kohademo.esilibrary.com, which is running 3.01.00.143 (HEAD?), so this bug is probably present in 3.2 as well.

Comment 1 Christopher Chagal 2010-08-05 14:03:02 UTC

Changing the affected Version to 3.2, since it also affects this branch.

Comment 2 Christopher Chagal 2011-06-07 20:17:59 UTC

This bug is still present in 3.4, in a slightly different way.

Instead of concatenating the |x fields, the MARC editor skips one of them. For example, when choosing the "United States|xHistory|yRevolution, 1775-1783|xPersonal narratives|vJuvenile literature" subject heading from our local authorities, the |xHistory subfield is left out when the data is distributed to the editor. Our catalogers tried adding another empty |x field before clicking the authority look up "..." link, but this just causes "xPersonal narratives" to fill every one after choosing this record.

Comment 3 Chris Nighswonger 2011-09-07 18:29:16 UTC

Is this still a problem in master or the latest 3.4.x release?

Comment 4 Jared Camins-Esakov 2011-12-23 16:58:29 UTC

I can confirm that this *is* still a bug, as Christopher Chagal described it in comment 2.

Comment 5 Katrin Fischer 2012-03-19 06:13:47 UTC

Jared - is this a bug in master too?

Comment 6 Jared Camins-Esakov 2012-03-19 13:08:08 UTC

This has been fixed in latest master.