[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reporting on MARC Fields

[Chauncey Montgomery]

A couple weeks ago, I had posted a question to IRC about reporting on 
the 650 fields in a MARC record.  At the time, I was having no success, 
while the Evergreen report module was reminding me that I was a mere 
mortal. Well, after a little more work and helpful hints from the 
community I had success.  I thought I’d post how I was able to run the 
report, since there has been some other questions circulating about this 
topic.

My original trials were using the source “Flattened MARC Fields.” 
However, I was not getting any results. I later switched to the source 
“Item,” and pulled in the flattened MARC fields and it worked.

Here is what I used in my report:

Filters:
Item :: Shelving Location - Location ID
Item :: Call Number/Volume - Owning Library
Item :: Call Number/Volume - Is Deleted
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Flattened MARC 
Fields - Tag
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Flattened MARC 
Fields - Subfield

Display:
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Simple Record 
Extracts - Title Proper (normalized)
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Flattened MARC 
Fields - Tag
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Flattened MARC 
Fields - Subfield

The final report gives me a simple list of titles with the 650 
information for the specified shelving location. Wunderbar!

Lessons learned:
1. Patience and persistence is imperative with reports (I need to be 
reminded of this often).
2. The Evergreen community rocks; thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Hopefully this helps anyone else trying to build a similar report.

CM
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Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS
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