How do the item material and the OPAC material filter correspond?

Question

How do the item material type field and the OPAC material filter correspond?

Answer

The material types relate to completely different sources:

- The drop down menu in item field material type (z30-material-type) uses the table $data_tab/tab25.lng
- The information for the OPAC material filter is defined in html file
$alephe_root/www_f_eng/find-include-filter
<td class="td2" id="small" valign="top">
<select name="filter_request_4" size 3>
<option value="">all</option>
<option value="BK" $$7300-S"BK">Books</option>
<option value="SE" $$7300-S"SE">Serials (Journals)</option>
<option value="MU" $$7300-S"MU">Music</option>
<option value="MP" $$7300-S"MP">Maps</option>
<option value="CF" $$7300-S"CF">Computer Files</option>
<option value="VM" $$7300-S"VM">Visual Materials</option>
<option value="MX" $$7300-S"MX">Mixed Materials</option>

This information corresponds to the bibliographic field FMT in the cataloging record.

Category: System Management (500)

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013