Wishlist - automatically set the 008 date correctly for a new MARC record

Bug #1836097 reported by Christine Burns
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This bug affects 19 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evergreen
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Each MARC template uses an xml record which defines the default tag info to use including the dates.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<record>
<leader>00620nam a22 i 4500</leader>
<controlfield tag="008">070101s eng d</controlfield>
<datafield tag="010" ind1="" ind2="">
<subfield code="a"></subfield>
</datafield>
<datafield tag="020" ind1="" ind2="">
<subfield code="a"></subfield>
</datafield>

The first six numbers (008/00-05, which currently come up as 070101) are supposed to be the date the file was created in yymmdd format (see https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd008a.html ).

Wishlist request to add a TODAY()-esque function, to automatically complete the date with the date the record is created

Revision history for this message
Lynn Floyd (lfloyd) wrote :

Our templates are blank in the date fields, but adding a today() function would be nice.

Changed in evergreen:
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: cataloging
tags: added: wishlist
Revision history for this message
Meg Stroup (mstroup) wrote :

Another vote for this item.

tags: added: marc
Revision history for this message
Francisco J Guel-Mendoza (fco.javier.guel) wrote :

Another vote for this item

Elaine Hardy (ehardy)
tags: added: cat-marc cat-templates
removed: cataloging marc
tags: removed: wishlist
Changed in evergreen:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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