Re: [IUG] display local field

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 01:51 PM 11/16/2009, Robert wrote:
> . . . Because y-tagged fields other then 856 can't be displayed 
> (though you can arrange to have that field group tag changed).

I've asked Innovative for clarification on this, but I'm not so sure 
that y-tagged fields other than the 856 can't be displayed.  I can 
make any y-tagged field in our system display merely be creating an 
entry for it in webpub.def (with the notable exception of the 856, 
which ignores webpub.def).  No one here recalls ever arranging to 
have anything changed, however, institutional memory says that when 
we first set up our system (pre-WebOPAC) we told Innovative what 
fields should not display to the public, and these fields were 
assigned to the y field group.  I'm guessing that the character-based 
catalog was so-configured, its settings were carried over to the 
first WebOPAC, and those settings were carried over to the first 
site-editable system-generated webpub.def file.  (I have all these 
lines in my live webpub.def that suppress y-tagged fields, but I 
didn't create them, and if I alter them, things change.)

It's my understanding that there's no inherent suppression associated 
with y-tagged fields in the WebPAC and that accounting for them in 
webpub.def will make them display (assuming the field is really 
y-tagged).  But my understanding could be flawed; when I hear from 
III I'll report back.

Bob Duncan


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Robert E. Duncan
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Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
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