Paul, On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Paul <pau...@aandc.org> wrote:
> We have just discovered a problem with 3.8.4 -- before I can rule out > whether it is 'our' db or setup that is at fault, or a more general issue, > I would appreciate some help. > > Basically our "authorities" are no longer functional. > > EXAMPLE A: TOPIC_TERM "World War" comes up with 414 results ranging from > 'World War 1' to 'World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Japanese' all > "Used 0 times" -- all were previously functional, searchable, mostly from > Z39.50 imports, and had single|multiple biblios attached. > > EXAMPLE B: PERSO_NAME > > 1) Add a new biblio from Z39.50. The author is 'Thomas, W. Donald'; we > have several books by this author; using the default framework, click the > icon at the end of line 100$a in addbiblio.pl, brings up the pop-up > 'catalogue authority plugin', no sign of this author. [authorities/ > auth_finder.pl?**authtypecode=PERSO_NAME&index=** > tag_100_subfield_a_995647_**916674&value_mainstr=Thomas,%** > 20W.%20Donald&value_main=<http://auth_finder.pl?authtypecode=PERSO_NAME&index=tag_100_subfield_a_995647_916674&value_mainstr=Thomas,%20W.%20Donald&value_main=> > ] > > 2) Search authorities/authorities-home.**pl?op=do_search&type=intranet&** > marclist=mainmainentry&**operator=contains&value=** > Thomas%2C+W.+Donald&orderby=**HeadingAsc<http://authorities-home.pl?op=do_search&type=intranet&marclist=mainmainentry&operator=contains&value=Thomas%2C+W.+Donald&orderby=HeadingAsc>--- > Authority search results No results found > > 3) "Search the catalogue" from the home page (catalogue/ > search.pl?q=Thomas%**2C+W.+Donald <http://search.pl?q=Thomas%2C+W.+Donald>) > comes up with 9 results, the first 5 are all by this author (the last four, > fuzzy, irrelevant.) > > 4) From any one of the relevant entries, click the author's name: > catalogue/search.pl?q=au:"**Thomas, W. Donald" gives all five proper > results > > 5) checkmarc.pl gives 'Configuration OK, you don't have errors in your > MARC parameters table' > > 6) authtypes.pl has the following "Define authority types": > /... > PERSO_NAME Personal Name Personal Names 100 > etc, etc > > The first 4 biblios were from our 3.6.1 db, which imported without error > into 3.8.4 ; the fifth is today's Z39.50 import > > The cron -z is running every minute, but to verify zebra, I manually did a > 'rebuild_zebra.pl -a -r -v' and a 'rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v -x' which > went through all authorities and biblios without error but one warning: > > Records exported: 37716 > ==================== > REINDEXING zebra > ==================== > 14:58:44-24/09 zebraidx(6239) [warn] Unknown register type: > ==================== > CLEANING > ==================== > > So ... new biblios and items are being recorded, but the cross referencing > to authorities appears to have died with the upgrade to 3.8.4 > > Most unfortunately, I can reproduce this in my sandbox and the [now > updated] production server. We missed this entirely during our testing - > mea culpa. > > Thoughts anyone? > Yes. The links are still there. However, there was a bug in Koha 3.8.1-3.8.4 that made the links not show up in searches. I believe it has been fixed in 3.8.5. I do not have a bug number off the top of my head. Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcam...@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/
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