Here is what we found while solving the difficulty of our search results not showing even though records were there.
From the tips & tricks: search info page (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Search_Info ) Didn't understand much of what was said here, but the last few words are a link to "a different post". So, found the file names here (http://www.len.ro/work/koha-search-2/ ) and the IT person helping though to look at the actual files to see what was in them. I sent them to her to check to make sure permissions matched for running the files. We've had issues with permissions before.
This is what she found: ***************************** Here is /etc/koha/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs Not sure why melm 090 is commented out. ?? # This is a fairly simple example of a set of MARC21 indexing rules. It # results in a server which provides a passable Bath level 0 and 1 service # (author, title, subject, keyword and exact services). Feel free to # elaborate on it, and if you do, please consider sharing your additions. # NOTE: This is designed to be used with the grs.marcxml input filter # for ISO2709 (ANSI Z39.2) or grs.xml for MARCXML-formatted records. It # won't work for the old grs.marc input filter, which yields a different # internal structure. encoding utf-8 name marc21 attset bib1.att attset gils.att esetname F @ esetname B @ marc usmarc.mar systag sysno rank xpath enable # Some notes: # pl = Published Place # ta = Target Audience 002/22 # ff8-23 # lf = Literary Form 008/33 # bio = Biography 008/34 # fmt = Format # ln = Language # ctype = Content type: review, catalog, encyclopedia, dictionary # pubdate Publication Date # rtype = Record type (leader 06) # # Date indexing in Koha 3.0 for MARC21: # Index Expected format Notes # date-entered-on-file [yymmdd] (008/0-5, indexed in word and sort indexes) # copydate [yyyy] (260$c, indexed in word and sort indexes) # acqdate [yyyy-mm-dd] (952$d, indexed in date,word,sort indexes) # pubdate [yyyy] (008/7-10, indexed in year,word,num,sort indexes) all any # melm 000 rtype:n:range(data,06,1),Bib-level:w:range(data,07,01) xelm /record/leader llength:w:range(data,0,5),rtype:w:range(data,6,1),Bib-level:w:range(data,7,1) # example: xelm /record/leader l1:w:range(data,0,5),l2:w:range(data,10,2) melm 001 Control-number melm 005 Date/time-last-modified melm 007 Microform-generation:n:range(data,11,1),Material-type,ff7-00:w:range(data,0,1),ff7-01:w:range(data,1,1),ff7-02:w:range(data,2,1),ff7-01-02:w:range(data,0,2) melm 008 date-entered-on-file:n:range(data,0,5),date-entered-on-file:s:range(data,0,5),pubdate:w:range(data,7,4),pubdate:n:range(data,7,4),pubdate:y:range(data,7,4),pubdate:s:range(data,7,4),pl:w:range(data,15,3),ta:w:range(data,22,1),ff8-23:w:range(data,23,1),ff8-29:w:range(data,29,1),lf:w:range(data,33,1),bio:w:range(data,34,1),ln:n:range(data,35,3),ctype:w:range(data,24,4),Record-source:w:range(data,39,0) melm 010 LC-card-number,Identifier-standard melm 011 LC-card-number,Identifier-standard melm 015 BNB-card-number,BGF-number,Number-db,Number-natl-biblio,Identifier-standard melm 017 Number-legal-deposit,Identifier-standard melm 018 Identifier-standard melm 020$a ISBN:w,Identifier-standard:w melm 020 Identifier-standard melm 022$a ISSN:w,Identifier-standard:w melm 022 Identifier-standard melm 023 Identifier-standard melm 024$a Identifier-other melm 024 Identifier-standard melm 025 Identifier-standard melm 027 Report-number,Identifier-standard melm 028 Number-music-publisher,Identifier-standard melm 030 CODEN,Identifier-standard #melm 033 Date melm 034 Map-scale #melm 035 Local-number,Identifier-standard melm 037 Identifier-standard,Stock-number melm 040 Code-institution,Record-source melm 041$a ln melm 041$d ln melm 041$e ln melm 041$j ln melm 043 Code-geographic #melm 046 pubdate melm 050$b LC-call-number:w,LC-call-number:p,LC-call-number:s melm 050 LC-call-number:w,LC-call-number:p,LC-call-number:s melm 052 Geographic-class melm 060 NLM-call-number melm 070 NAL-call-number melm 080 UDC-classification melm 082 Dewey-classification:w,Dewey-classification:s melm 086 Number-govt-pub #melm 942$k LC-card-number:s ## KOHA SPECIFIC #melm 090$c Local-number:w #Identifier-standard:w {TRUNCATED} ********************************** So, we decided to uncomment the melm 090$c line. Lo, and behold, our search is now functioning. So, the question is, why is this line commented out on a fresh install? Lenora StreamNet Regional Librarian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission