MARC Validation Editor

The MARC Validation Editor is displayed when you select the Profiles folder at the System level, the Cataloging tab, and the MARC Validation Authority or MARC Validation Bibliographic profiles.

Use the MARC Validation Editor dialog box to:

• Set validation options for MARC content designators Tags, indicators, and subfield codes in a MARC record. - Select a validation row, and change the Required, Validate, Repeat, and Obsolete columns as needed. See Add or change a MARC validation rule.
• Add or change validation rules for locally-defined (9xx) tags - Select where to add the rule in the MARC Fields list and click . See Add or change a MARC validation rule.
• Specify the proper field sort order for MARC records in Polaris - Select the tag for which you want to change the sort position, and click  or . See Change the sort order of MARC tags.
• Specify the conditional rules for tag fields -Select the tag for the conditional rule, and click  for the Rules list. See Define a conditional validation rule.
• Change the descriptions that are displayed in the MARC Editor for a content designator - Select the content designator, and change the text in the Display name and Description boxes. See Specify the display name for MARC tags.