It turns out that I wasn't exactly doing something wrong, I just wasn't doing enough things right. I also somehow hadn't run across this page: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/How_to_add_new_zebra_index which made things a lot easier. Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king@medstar.net 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org Sometimes I wake up from a dream and then go back to it in disguise so I can find out what they’re saying about me behind my back. --Bill in Portland -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of King, Fred Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:02 PM To: koha Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Koha] Indexing a new field--what am I doing wrong? [rest of message snipped]