Setting Up Item Creation Parameters

You can specify whether Horizon automatically creates item records from incoming bib records during import. If you choose this option, you must tell Horizon where to find the item information in the incoming records, and which item table columns should store the information after Horizon extracts it. (For example, you can specify the item tag as 949. From tag 949, Horizon extracts the call number, the collection, and the location, and puts the information in those item table columns.) If you want to add additional item information that you do not specify when you import bib records, you must add that information to each record manually.

You can also specify the match points Horizon checks when creating item records at import, and decide whether Horizon should preserve or overlay data in existing item records.

When setting up item creation parameters, you must specify these things:

Import Source. The source used to import bib records.
Tag. The tag in the incoming records that stores item information.
Item Columns. A list of columns from the item table where incoming item information is stored to create the item.
Item Subfields. The subfields in the item tag that contain the item information.
Item Match Points. The information that Horizon uses to identify a record to overlay.

Once you set up the columns for the tags and subfields you want to use to create items, you can add item creation to your import sources.

This section explains these topics:

 


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