Bug 7382

Summary: normalization on isbn matching rule
Product: Koha Reporter: Nicole C. Engard <nengard>
Component: CatalogingAssignee: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: ago, bibliwho, dschust1, jendayi30, kyle, magnus
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Nicole C. Engard 2011-12-27 20:32:33 UTC
It would be nice if when using isbn as a match point it normalized the ISBN first.  Now if one isbn ends in (pbk) and the other doesn't - but they're both the same number it doesn't match them and imports duplicates.
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2011-12-27 20:42:20 UTC
Created attachment 6935 [details]
screenshot of matching rule interface

I am not sure how it works - but there is a field for a normalization rule in the staff interface. So perhaps there is some 'hidden' feature that would allow doing this?
Comment 2 Magnus Enger 2011-12-28 10:35:27 UTC
Business::ISBN has functions to do stuff like that.
Comment 3 Albert Oller 2012-06-14 15:10:16 UTC
Hi,

according to the manual: Koha only has one 'Normalization rule' that removes extra characters such as commas and semicolons. The value you enter in this field is irrelevant to the normalization process.
Comment 4 JaTara Barnes 2013-06-05 01:43:20 UTC
What's a good starting point for getting this fixed? I'd love to help with this project.
Comment 5 Kyle M Hall 2013-08-30 14:36:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10500 ***