[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reporting on MARC Fields

[Holly Brennan]

Thank you so much for sharing, Chauncey! Bravo for tackling this and holding on until you figured it out!

-Holly

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From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Chauncey Montgomery
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:34 AM
To: Evergreen
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Reporting on MARC Fields

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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