From a4919280d24b5fa9e67d9e455709d507e003f322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Galen Charlton <galen.charlton@liblime.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:36:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] quell warning if updating itemnote whose original value is
 NULL

Signed-off-by: Chris Cormack <crc@liblime.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com>
---
 catalogue/updateitem.pl | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/catalogue/updateitem.pl b/catalogue/updateitem.pl
index 24b1a7e6ea..3099566402 100755
--- a/catalogue/updateitem.pl
+++ b/catalogue/updateitem.pl
@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@ for ($damaged,$itemlost,$wthdrawn) {
 
 # modify MARC item if input differs from items table.
 my $item_changes = {};
-if (defined $itemnotes and ($itemnotes ne $item_data_hashref->{'itemnotes'})) {
-    $item_changes->{'itemnotes'} = $itemnotes;
+if (defined $itemnotes) { # i.e., itemnotes parameter passed from form
+    if ((not defined  $item_data_hashref->{'itemnotes'}) or $itemnotes ne $item_data_hashref->{'itemnotes'}) {
+        $item_changes->{'itemnotes'} = $itemnotes;
+    }
 } elsif ($itemlost ne $item_data_hashref->{'itemlost'}) {
     $item_changes->{'itemlost'} = $itemlost;
 } elsif ($wthdrawn ne $item_data_hashref->{'wthdrawn'}) {
-- 
2.20.1