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    Configuring Related Records for Display in Primo VE

    Introduction

    The following MARC linking fields allow you to link a bibliographic record to other bibliographic records and to display these relationships in the Get It, View Online, and Details sections of the record's full display in Primo VE: 76X-78X and 8XX.

    For more information regarding the configuration and display of related records in the View Online and Get It sections, see the following documents:

    The following sections describe how related records are presented in the Details section of the record's full display. 

    Display of Related Records in Details Section

    When linking information is configured in a bibliographic record, the information displays in the following related records fields if enabled for the view in Primo VE: Related titles, Is Part Of, and Series.

    For 76X-78X fields, the label that displays for the related record's link depends on the value of the $$t subfield:

    1. If subfield $$t exists, its value is used for the display link's label. 

    2. If subfield $$t does not exist, the values of all other subfields (except for subfields w, x, z) are combined and used for the display link's label.

    3. If a title cannot be constructed from the subfields, the default label Link to related record appears for the display link's label.

    For 8XX fields, the display link's label is built as follows:

    1. If subfield $$t exists, its value is combined with all other subfields to form the display link's label.

    2. If subfield $$t does not exist, all other subfields are combined to form the display link's label.

    Primo VE tries to link users directly to the related record based on its configuration in Alma, and in case records are not connected in Alma, Primo VE generates a search query for the value in the catalog.

    In the following example, the MARC 773 field links a record to its parent record using only the MMS ID of the parent record, and the default label appears for the link:

    773 #0 $$w 991212850000541

    The linking record is the bibliographic record that contains the link to the related record. Linking in the opposite direction is handled automatically and does not require linking configuration in the related record.

    Linking Record:

    PVE_Example1_LinkingRecord.png

    No Title Specified for Related Record - Is Part Of Relationship

    Related Record:

    PVE_Example1_RelatedRecord.png

    Link Back to Linking Record

    Configuration Options

    Configuring the Related Record Fields

    The Full Record Services tab on the View Configuration page (Configuration Menu > Discovery > Display Configuration > Configure Views) allows you to configure which fields display in the Details section of the record's full display. To enable the Related titlesIs Part OfSeries, and Bound with fields, see Configuring the Details Service.

    The Full Display Labels code table configures the display labels for these fields. For more details, see Configuring Display Labels for Primo VE.

    Configuring the Display Labels for the Relationship Types

    The Display Constants Labels code table configures the display labels for the relationship types that appear in the Details section of the record's full display. In addition, you can customize the following default display label, which appears when a $$t subfield is not specified for the 76X-78X fields:

    fulldisplay.constants.linkToRelatedRecord:    Link to related record

    The following table shows the configuration and display information for each relationship. For information on how to customize or translate display labels, see Configuring Display Labels for Primo VE.

    Display of Linking Fields in Details Section
    MARC Linking Field Linking Record's
    Display Field / Relationship
    Related Record's
    Display Field / Relationship

    760 0#

    Related titles / Main Series

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.main_series

    Related titles / Has sub-series

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.sub_series

    762 0#

    Related titles / Has sub-series

    Related titles / Main Series

    765 0#

    Related titles / Translation of

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.orig_language

    Related titles / Translated as

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.translation

    767 0#

    Related titles / Translated as

    Related titles / Translation of

    770 0#

    Related titles / Has supplement

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.supplement

    Related titles / Supplement to

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.supp_parent

    772 0#

    Related titles / Supplement to

    Related titles / Has supplement

    773 #0

    Is Part Of

    Related titles / Units

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.constituent

    773 #0 $$t <title> $$9 unrelated

    Bound with

    Bound with / Units

    774 #0

    Related titles / Units

    Is Part Of

    774 #0 $$t <title> $$9 unrelated

    Bound with / Units

    Bound with

    775 0#

    Related titles / complete edition

    Code:
    not configurable

    Related titles / Other editions available

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.edition

    776 0#

    Related titles / Available in other form

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.form

    Related titles / Available in other form

    777 0#

    Related titles / Issued with

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.issued_with

    Related titles / Issued with

    780 0 (0-7)

    Related titles / Earlier title

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.earlier_title

    Related titles / Later title

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.later_title

    785 0 (0-7)

    Related titles /  Later title

    Related titles / Earlier title

    786 0#

    Related titles / Data Source

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.data_source

    Related titles / Data Source

    787 0#

    Related titles / Related to

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.other_relationship

    Related titles / Related to

    800, 810, 811, 830

    Series

    Related titles / Contains

    Code:
    fulldisplay.constants.contains

    Changes to linking information in the source records does not go into effect until after the MMS - Build Record Relations job on the Monitor Jobs page (Admin > Manage Jobs and Sets > Monitor Jobs > Scheduled tab) is run.

    Requiring a Title to Link Records

    If you prefer to require the existence of subfield t, change the when condition in your normalization rules to check only for the existence of subfield t instead of the existence of any of the subfields t, x, w, z. For example, in the following rule for series 800 fields, change the highlighted line:

    rule "Primo VE - Series 800"
        when
              MARC."800" has any "t,w,x"
        then

    To:

    rule "Primo VE - Series 800"
        when
              MARC."800" has any "t"
        then

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