[Isis-users] ABCD and automatic field update

[Piet De Keyser]

Yes, Guida, this works! That is the one we need! You keep surprising us the good way. My mistake was I tried to construct it as an end validation for a certain worksheet, and not for general.


Piet


Van: Guilda Ascencio <guildaa at gmail.com>
Verzonden: zondag 3 april 2016 18:03
Aan: Piet De Keyser
CC: spinaker; isis-users at iccisis.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Isis-users] ABCD and automatic field update

Update database definitions -> Record validation -> End format -> General

>From the fields menu, select one field and build a format. The string produced by the format will be stored in the field selected (if the field is empty)

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Piet De Keyser <piet.dekeyser at ucll.be<mailto:piet.dekeyser at ucll.be>> wrote:

Dear Ernesto,


Thank you for your fast answer. Yes, a proc ind the end format should be possible too. But if that is the case, we need no special mechanism to replace the spaces, since a replace command could do this (plus: punctuation should also be stripped from our "key").


You know, this is what we had in Weblis 10 years ago: you could add many things (including content from other databases) while saving. I know ABCD is much more advanced compared with Weblis, but they had some nice thing too, e.g. this one plus a very good layout for thesauri. Maybe you and Guilda could get the code from them for that too (in fact it is open source software, although the source can only be optained from Unesco).



Piet



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Van: isis-users <isis-users-bounces+piet.dekeyser=ucll.be at iccisis.org<mailto:ucll.be at iccisis.org>> namens spinaker <spinaker at adinet.com.uy<mailto:spinaker at adinet.com.uy>>
Verzonden: zaterdag 2 april 2016 17:15
Aan: isis-users at iccisis.org<mailto:isis-users at iccisis.org>
Onderwerp: Re: [Isis-users] ABCD and automatic field update

Dear Piet

As far as I know (Guilda should confirm) this is a pending issue for a long time,
this kind of feature should be implemented in
 Record Validation
    * End format
 where the format should include a  PROC(  )

I think the reason this feature is pending is because nobody has requested it before

If you want this kind of function (I imagine you need it for FRBR indexation), we also need a function to clean the string from non-alphanumeric chars in order to generate clean and compact unique keys

Regards
Ernesto Spinak




El 02/04/2016 a las 11:52, Piet De Keyser escribió:

Dear friends,


Who knows a way to automatically add content to a field in ABCD while saving a record. I know it is possible to add the name and the operator plus the data, to add increment the control number and a few other things, but I would need in e.g. a local field the processed content of some other fields, e.g.


-> these fields are keyed in:


v100^aSmith, John

v245^aBeautiful Africa

-> this field would be automatically added:

v991^aBEATIFULAFRICASMITHJOHN

Piet de Keyser
(Belgium, although: who still dares to say he lives in Belgium?....)



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