[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Source value

[Mike Rylander]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Grant Johnson <fgjohnson at upei.ca> wrote:
> Is there any reason why records are created without a source?
> If I add a transcendent Source to ALL records - (Item Record or not) does this hurt anything...

That will make all query-matching records show up everywhere.  You'll
need to restrict setting the source to just the records you want to be
transcendent.

>
> We are putting erecords in without Item Records and need them to be transcendent by default.
>
> So..
>
> Is there code to modify to make a default "source" value?

Vandelay (1.4) will allow setting the source on import.

> Should we just write an sql query to update records?

Yes, to do a large batch of existing records, that is the way.

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