Created attachment 152833 [details] Missing tag editor button With the RequireChoosingExistingAuthority set to required for cataloging, this requirement is now enforced on the acquisitions framework. However, the authority field is missing the tag editor to allow a look up. To recreate: 1. Set the RequireChoosingExistingAuthority system setting to required. 2. Make sure the acquisitions framework has the 100 Personal name field 2. In Acquisitions, find a vendor and add to a basket from a new empty record. See that the 100 Personal name field is missing the tag editor button. This is new behavior with 22.11. Previously the required look up was not present with this system setting enabled.
We are seeing this issue on 22.11 too. It sounds logical that the section shown in Esther Melander's screenshot should follow the acquisitions framework as set up in Administration > MARC bibliographic frameworks. But without the tag editor button, the author fields linked to the authority file are unusable. Here are a few more details on what we are doing: 1. Set the RequireChoosingExistingAuthority system preference to "require". 2. Set the UseACQFrameworkForBiblioRecords system preference to "Use". 3. Check the ACQ framework has a field linked to authorities, e.g. 100a to PERSO_NAME or 110a to CORPO_NAME. 4. In Acquisitions, find a vendor and add to a basket "from a new (empty) record. 5. See that the author fields are locked but there is no tag editor button to select an authority - like there is when adding a new record in the Cataloguing module.
I believe the configurable acq form was not thought to be a full replacement of the cataloguing editor, but to provide a more flexibility than the older hard coded form. What could help here is removing the Thesaurus from 100(a) to make the field editable at least.
The library ended up switching UseACQFrameworkForBiblioRecords to "Don't use". But they would really like a way to force a selection from the authority file for author fields everywhere - including when creating a new record in Acquisitions.