diff --git a/authorities/authorities.pl b/authorities/authorities.pl
index ce476ebb22..9eb205de35 100755
--- a/authorities/authorities.pl
+++ b/authorities/authorities.pl
@@ -186,8 +186,8 @@ sub create_input {
     class=\"input_marceditor\"
     tabindex=\"1\"                     
         readonly=\"readonly\" \/>
-    <span class=\"buttonDot\"
-        onclick=\"Dopop('/cgi-bin/koha/authorities/auth_finder.pl?authtypecode=".$tagslib->{$tag}->{$subfield}->{authtypecode}."&index=$subfield_data{id}','$subfield_data{id}')\">...</span>
+    <a href=\"#\" class=\"buttonDot\"
+        onclick=\"openAuth(this.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('input')[1].id,'".$tagslib->{$tag}->{$subfield}->{authtypecode}."'); return false;\" tabindex=\"1\" title=\"Tag Editor\">...</a>
     ";
     # it's a plugin field
     }
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/authorities/authorities.tmpl b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/authorities/authorities.tmpl
index 31b73c4664..d50c9f9b82 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/authorities/authorities.tmpl
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/authorities/authorities.tmpl
@@ -119,6 +119,43 @@ function Check(){
 }
 
 
+// returns the subfieldcode based upon subfieldid writing
+function getSubfieldcode(tagsubfieldid){
+    // 3 : tag +3 : tagnumber +4 : number of _ +8 subfield -1 begins at 0  
+    return tagsubfieldid.substr(3+3+4+8-1,1);
+}
+
+// Take the base of tagsubfield information (removing the subfieldcodes and subfieldindexes)
+// returns the filter
+function getTagInputnameFilter(tagsubfieldid){
+    var tagsubfield=tagsubfieldid.substr(0,tagsubfieldid.lastIndexOf("_"));  
+    var tagcode=tagsubfield.substr(tagsubfield.lastIndexOf("_"));
+    tagsubfield=tagsubfield.substr(0,tagsubfield.lastIndexOf("_"));
+    tagsubfield=tagsubfield.substr(0,tagsubfield.lastIndexOf("_"));
+    tagsubfield=tagsubfield+"_."+tagcode;
+    return tagsubfield;  
+}
+
+function openAuth(tagsubfieldid,authtype) {
+    // let's take the base of tagsubfield information (removing the indexes and the codes
+    var element=document.getElementById(tagsubfieldid);
+    var tagsubfield=getTagInputnameFilter(tagsubfieldid);
+    var elementsubfcode=getSubfieldcode(element.name);
+    var mainmainstring=element.value;
+    var mainstring="";  
+    var inputs = element.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName("input");
+
+    for (var myindex =0; myindex<inputs.length;myindex++){
+        if (inputs[myindex].name && inputs[myindex].name.match(tagsubfield)){
+            var subfieldcode=getSubfieldcode(inputs[myindex].name);
+            if (isNaN(parseInt(subfieldcode)) && inputs[myindex].value != "" && subfieldcode!=elementsubfcode){
+                mainstring=inputs[myindex].value+" "+mainstring;
+            }      
+        }
+    }           
+	newin=window.open("../authorities/auth_finder.pl?authtypecode="+  authtype+ "&index="+tagsubfieldid+"&value_mainstr="+encodeURI(mainmainstring)+"&value_main="+encodeURI(mainstring), "_blank",'width=700,height=550,toolbar=false,scrollbars=yes');
+}
+
 function AddField(field,cntrepeatfield) {
     document.forms['f'].op.value = "addfield";
     document.forms['f'].addfield_field.value=field;
@@ -126,10 +163,6 @@ function AddField(field,cntrepeatfield) {
     document.f.submit();
 }
 
-function Dopop(link,i) {
-    defaultvalue = document.getElementById(i).value;
-    window.open(link+"&result="+defaultvalue,"valuebuilder",'width=700,height=550,toolbar=false,scrollbars=yes');
-}
 
 function ExpandField(index) {
     var original = document.getElementById(index); //original <div>