Also link_bibs_to_authorities.pl is broken in a lot of cases, only last week it unlinked all my authorities, fortunately the library only had 500 bibs but it still took me 3 hours to load up 500 bibs via the application and hit the save button.
<i><b>The only reliable way to link auth_headings and bibs it to do it via addbiblio.pl on the /admin panel.</b></i>
I'm currently writing a script to traverse the biblioitems table and link bibs to authorities (or create new authorities) in a way that winr remove the $9#100 tagfields on a failed search.
It uses the zebra Simplesearch() function and a lot of other built in functionality built around the Addbiblio.pl and C4::Search.pm scripts.
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<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">oslo wrote:</div>
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Hi
I see a lot of people complaining about this and I had trouble with this myself. First off there are bugs in Authorities.pl and Biblio.pm where it does not check to ensure $record or $marc is defined but checks for a value of -1 (I think???) - I'd hope that will be fixed in 3.6
Anyway if you are creating authorities a lot and they don't turn up in an authority search but you can search the opac or do a catalogue search and find biblios with the personal or corporate name e.t.c. attached to it you probably have a similar problem to me. I suspect it is because reindex_zebra.pl failed and the cleanup_database.pl script kicked in and pruned my failed Authorities (don't know that just suspect it), at the time the rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -b -v was giving this error :
**** ERROR : "Can't call method "field" on an undefined value at C4/Biblio.pm line 359"
You can verify by recreating one authority then running bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -v
When you search for the authority it will find it with 0 bibs attached.
So to fix this I updated my cron job to do an authorities only re index then run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl then do a biblio only re-index.
This fixed it for me 100%. I run these as a cron job every 2 mins so my koha crontab for that section looks like this.
# ZEBRA INDEX UPDATES with -z option, incremental index updates throughout the day
# for both authorities and bibs
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -z >/dev/null
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../link_bibs_to_authorities.pl >/dev/null
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -z >/dev/null
Hope that helps someone
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<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">oslo wrote:</div>
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Hi
I see a lot of people complaining about this and I had trouble with this myself. First off there are bugs in Authorities.pl and Biblio.pm where it does not check to ensure $record or $marc is defined but checks for a value of -1 (I think???) - I'd hope that will be fixed in 3.6
Anyway if you are creating authorities a lot and they don't turn up in an authority search but you can search the opac or do a catalogue search and find biblios with the personal or corporate name e.t.c. attached to it you probably have a similar problem to me. I suspect it is because reindex_zebra.pl failed and the cleanup_database.pl script kicked in and pruned my failed Authorities (don't know that just suspect it), at the time the rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -b -v was giving this error :
**** ERROR : "Can't call method "field" on an undefined value at C4/Biblio.pm line 359"
You can verify by recreating one authority then running bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -v
When you search for the authority it will find it with 0 bibs attached.
So to fix this I updated my cron job to do an authorities only re index then run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl then do a biblio only re-index.
This fixed it for me 100%. I run these as a cron job every 2 mins so my koha crontab for that section looks like this.
# ZEBRA INDEX UPDATES with -z option, incremental index updates throughout the day
# for both authorities and bibs
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -z >/dev/null
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../link_bibs_to_authorities.pl >/dev/null
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -z >/dev/null
Hope that helps someone
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<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">oslo wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message">
Hi
I see a lot of people complaining about this and I had trouble with this myself. First off there are bugs in Authorities.pl and Biblio.pm where it does not check to ensure $record or $marc is defined but checks for a value of -1 (I think???) - I'd hope that will be fixed in 3.6
Anyway if you are creating authorities a lot and they don't turn up in an authority search but you can search the opac or do a catalogue search and find biblios with the personal or corporate name e.t.c. attached to it you probably have a similar problem to me. I suspect it is because reindex_zebra.pl failed and the cleanup_database.pl script kicked in and pruned my failed Authorities (don't know that just suspect it), at the time the rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -b -v was giving this error :
**** ERROR : "Can't call method "field" on an undefined value at C4/Biblio.pm line 359"
You can verify by recreating one authority then running bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -v
When you search for the authority it will find it with 0 bibs attached.
So to fix this I updated my cron job to do an authorities only re index then run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl then do a biblio only re-index.
This fixed it for me 100%. I run these as a cron job every 2 mins so my koha crontab for that section looks like this.
# ZEBRA INDEX UPDATES with -z option, incremental index updates throughout the day
# for both authorities and bibs
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -z >/dev/null
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../link_bibs_to_authorities.pl >/dev/null
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -z >/dev/null
Hope that helps someone
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</div></blockquote>
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<div class="quote-author" style="font-weight: bold;">oslo wrote:</div>
<div class="quote-message">
Hi
I see a lot of people complaining about this and I had trouble with this myself. First off there are bugs in Authorities.pl and Biblio.pm where it does not check to ensure $record or $marc is defined but checks for a value of -1 (I think???) - I'd hope that will be fixed in 3.6
Anyway if you are creating authorities a lot and they don't turn up in an authority search but you can search the opac or do a catalogue search and find biblios with the personal or corporate name e.t.c. attached to it you probably have a similar problem to me. I suspect it is because reindex_zebra.pl failed and the cleanup_database.pl script kicked in and pruned my failed Authorities (don't know that just suspect it), at the time the rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -b -v was giving this error :
**** ERROR : "Can't call method "field" on an undefined value at C4/Biblio.pm line 359"
You can verify by recreating one authority then running bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -a -v
When you search for the authority it will find it with 0 bibs attached.
So to fix this I updated my cron job to do an authorities only re index then run link_bibs_to_authorities.pl then do a biblio only re-index.
This fixed it for me 100%. I run these as a cron job every 2 mins so my koha crontab for that section looks like this.
# ZEBRA INDEX UPDATES with -z option, incremental index updates throughout the day
# for both authorities and bibs
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -a -z >/dev/null
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../link_bibs_to_authorities.pl >/dev/null
*/2 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/../migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -z >/dev/null
Hope that helps someone
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</div></blockquote>
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