This is didn't realize. I did try searching exact matches and I'm still
getting no results. The fact that there are not errors and all other author
searching and browsing is working is just vexing me.
Thanks for the suggestion,
--TR
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Terry Reese
Cataloger for Networked Resources
Digital Production Unit Head
Oregon State University Libraries
Corvallis, OR 97331
tel: 541-737-6384
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Richard Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 2/14/2008 12:27 AM
To: Reese, Terry
Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Item mapper returning blank on author search
Hi Terry,
I've found the Item Mapper author browse to be extremely unforgiving in
its application. I took a look at the way that it works, and it
performs an author browse on precisely the free text string that you
enter into the box, and if it does not find exact matches it gives you
nothing. So if you are looking for papers by me, and I am in the author
list as "Jones, R", then "Jones", "Jones R", "Jones, Richard" will all
return no results. Are you definitely searching for the precise author
name as it appears in metadata?
Alternatives are that the browse indices have not yet been created. If
you select Browse By Author, and you get no results you will need to
build those indices first.
Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Richard
> I'm just fishing for ideas here. I've setup an instance of 1.4.2 and
> both search and browsing the author index work dandy. However, when I
> go to the item mapper and enter an author to query, I get back a
> results screen with an empty list (I see add and cancel buttons, the
> table headers, but no results). No errors are showing up in the error
> logs -- it just doesn't seem to be finding the data. I'm sure I'm
> over looking something obvious, so I'm going to step back and look at
> it again tomorrow -- but I thought I'd see if anyone else has run into
> this when setting up a new install and have any suggestions.
>
> --TR
>
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> Terry Reese
> Cataloger for Networked Resources
> Digital Production Unit Head
> Oregon State University Libraries
> Corvallis, OR 97331
> tel: 541-737-6384
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http: http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset <http://oregonstate.edu/%7Ereeset
> <http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset> >
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