Bug 6011

Summary: 7xx fields should optionally link on standard (ISBN/ISSN/etc.) numbers
Product: Koha Reporter: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins>
Component: OPACAssignee: Jared Camins-Esakov <jcamins>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: flyingendpaper, ztajoli
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Description Jared Camins-Esakov 2011-03-30 19:57:21 UTC
It should be possible to navigate 7xx related entries tracings via searches on standard numbers, rather than being limited to just textual or control number searches.
Comment 1 Zeno Tajoli 2011-03-31 08:05:35 UTC
For me is not a good idea.
ISSN are quite valid as persistent identifiers but ISBN not.

ISBN are valid identifers for Book avaible fom publishers but not after the edition is not more avaible.
Publishers can reuse them.  So ISBN are good persistent id for booksellers but not for libraraies.
Comment 2 Jared Camins-Esakov 2011-03-31 13:04:03 UTC
I suggest this be optional, enabled by a syspref (UseStandardNumbers). I know that ISBNs are neither persistent nor guaranteed unique, but in any given collection, they are likely to be close enough for the purposes of linking records. This provides a reasonably reliable link in libraries that use linking fields extensively in their existing data.

This feature is not going to make it into 3.4.