Setting the Editor Preferences
To change the appearance of the record editor, choose Edit | Preferences from the menu bar. The Login can edit preferences option enables these menu commands.
The elements of the Editor tab are described below.
- Show field group
- Choose whether to have the editor display field group tags or field group labels. This applies to non-MARC fields and, if the Show field group information for MARC fields box is checked, for MARC fields as well.
- Show MARC tags/indicators
- Check this option to display MARC tags and indicators when creating or editing a MARC record.
- Show field group information for MARC fields
- Check this option to display field group information for MARC fields when creating or editing a MARC record.
- Show MARC validation
- Choose the record type(s) for which you want the system to perform validation on MARC fields when a bibliographic, authority, or holdings record is being created or edited. All record types are checked by default. When a box is un-checked, validation is turned off for all open MARC records. When the box is checked again, validation is turned on for all open MARC records and all subsequent MARC records are validated when opened.
- Overwrite MARC tags/indicators
- Check this option to choose to overwrite, rather than insert, existing MARC tags and indicators when editing a MARC record. When this box is checked, placing the cursor in the MARC tag, Ind1 or Ind2 positions in a record causes the editor to be in OVERWRITE function. When the cursor moves to the main data portion of a MARC field, the editor switches to INSERT function.
- Update field group tag when MARC tagging changes
- If this option is checked, when a user changes a MARC tag in a record, the system updates the Innovative field group tag, if appropriate, based on the load table used by the Sierra editor. For example, depending on the load table used, if a user changes a MARC 240 field to a MARC 246, the system might change the field group tag from a "t" (for MARC 240 fields) to a "u" (for MARC 245 fields). See MARC Records for more information.