[Isis-users] ABCD and automatic field update

[Guilda Ascencio]

Piet: The end format is intended to work also with specific worksheet, so
have to fix that.

Ernesto: What is needed for the clean function? A list of tags? All non
alphabetic characters are to be removed?

Regards

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:23 PM, spinaker <spinaker at adinet.com.uy> wrote:

> Great, it works!!!
>
> so, what we need now is a function to clean a string of all
> non-alphanumeric elements, i.e. spaces, typographic characteres, etc.
> in this way you can create keys for FRBR independently of the punctuation
> used in cataloging (isbd or other)
>
> ernesto spinak
>
>
>
> El 03/04/2016 a las 16:14, Piet De Keyser escribió:
>
> 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> <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>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *Van:* isis-users <isis-users-bounces+piet.dekeyser=
>> <ucll.be at iccisis.org>ucll.be at iccisis.org> namens spinaker <
>> spinaker at adinet.com.uy>
>> *Verzonden:* zaterdag 2 april 2016 17:15
>> *Aan:* 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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