Removing tags from the Web OPAC "MARC Tags" and "Name Tags" displays

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20, 21, 22, 23

Description:
We want to suppress certain MARC fields from the "MARC Tags" ("001") and "Name Tags" formats in the Web OPAC. (We know how to suppress fields from the Full Record view, but also need to suppress them in these other views.)

We do want to offer users the MARC tag display option, but we have information in certain fields that is sensitive and cannot be displayed in public.

Resolution:
Let's say that the field you want to suppress from OPAC MARC tags display is the "CAT" field.

1. Include this line in your ./xxx01/tab/tab_expand:
WEB-FULL-1 fix_doc_do_file_08 delete_cat_field.fix

(As noted in the tab_expand header, the WEB-FULL-1 is for the full display/Web OPAC format 001 -- which is MARC tags.)

2. Add a "delete_cat_field.fix" file to your ./xxx01/tab/import directory -- which looks like this:
1 CAT## DELETE-FIELD

3. Similarly, to suppress the tag from the OPAC Name Tags display, include the following line in your ./xxx01/tab/tab_expand:
WEB-FULL fix_doc_do_file_08 delete_cat_field.fix

[Note: The same technique can be used to suppress the display of any other tag in the MARC Tags / Name Tags displays. You can have multiple lines in the delete-field file, one for each tag you want to delete from the display.]