How to Adding Autocomplete support to MARC21 Catalogue in koha | Book Data Entry page

Adding auto-complete feature to Koha’s MARC21 biblioitems field (Imprint – place, name of publisher, ISBN,edition, etc) as a cataloging aid.

Step - 1

Go to : Koha administration/Global system preferences/Staff interface/IntranetUserJS

Below the Java script  enable of the auto completed in four columns for ISBN, Place of publication, Name of the Publisher, Edition

Copy and paste the bellow JS Coding.

//**Autocomplete support to MARC21 catalogue**//  

$(document).ready(function(){

$( '[id^="tag_260_subfield_a"]' ).autocomplete({

    source: function(request, response) {

      $.ajax({

        url: "/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/ysearch.pl",

        dataType: "json",

        data: {

          term: request.term,

          table: "biblioitems",

          field: "place"

        },

        success: function(data) {

          response( $.map( data, function( item ) {

            return {

              label: item.fieldvalue,

              value: item.fieldvalue

            };

          }));

        }

      });

    },

    minLength: 1,

  });

 $( '[id^="tag_020_subfield_a"]' ).autocomplete({

    source: function(request, response) {

      $.ajax({

        url: "/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/ysearch.pl",

        dataType: "json",

        data: {

          term: request.term,

          table: "biblioitems",

          field: "ISBN"

        },

        success: function(data) {

          response( $.map( data, function( item ) {

            return {

              label: item.fieldvalue,

              value: item.fieldvalue

            };

          }));

        }

      });

    },

    minLength: 1,

  });

  

  $( '[id^="tag_260_subfield_b"]' ).autocomplete({

    source: function(request, response) {

      $.ajax({

        url: "/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/ysearch.pl",

        dataType: "json",

        data: {

          term: request.term,

          table: "biblioitems",

          field: "publishercode"

        },

        success: function(data) {

          response( $.map( data, function( item ) {

            return {

              label: item.fieldvalue,

              value: item.fieldvalue

            };

          }));

        }

      });

    },

    minLength: 1,

  });

 $( '[id^="tag_250_subfield_a"]' ).autocomplete({

    source: function(request, response) {

      $.ajax({

        url: "/cgi-bin/koha/cataloguing/ysearch.pl",

        dataType: "json",

        data: {

          term: request.term,

          table: "biblioitems",

          field: "Editionstatement"

        },

        success: function(data) {

          response( $.map( data, function( item ) {

            return {

              label: item.fieldvalue,

              value: item.fieldvalue

            };

          }));

        }

      });

    },

    minLength: 1,

  });

});

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Step - 2

Go to : Home/Cataloging/New Record (Enter the all bibliographies details )

References:

[1] http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/RDA%20training%20materials/LC%20RDA%20Training/Module1IntroManifestItemsSept12.doc

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/AJAX/Getting_Started

[3] https://gist.github.com/l2c2technologies/7d0449dcb80c90880381ef4571003d1d

[4] http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html

[5] http://blog.l2c2.co.in/index.php/2017/01/15/adding-autocomplete-support-to-marc21-260-264-imprint-fields-in-koha/