First of all, thanks to the community here, it has been an invaluable resource in helping me to install koha, and in getting everything off the ground. My problem exists in using the general search feature. I have no problem searching through the cataloging functions. Zebra seems to be completely fine working there, as it can do the Z39.50 searches, as well as search through my uploaded MARC files. The problem is, when I keyword or title search, or even barcode search through the main Search function (url ending in search.pl), I continually get "No Results Found". The items exist when I pull them up manually by barcode for instance, as in the checkin/checkout sections, or when I view the items attached to a MARC entry. Obviously my problem isn't specific enough for anyone to give a specific answer. I'm wondering if given my abilities to search through the Catalog functions, if anyone might be able to tell me where to begin searching out the solution to this problem. I guess I don't know enough about how search.pl works, to start troubleshooting. Specifically, I'm wondering if there are error logs that I might be able to search through. Zebra? MySQL? Apache? (Apache just shows deprecated memcache errors, but no errors regarding searches specifically). Thank you!!
Dear Cody, Well, I'm not an expert, but this does sound like the same Zebra indexing issue we have been struggling with. When you search in the Catalogue, do you get "No results found," but directly under that see the items listed under: "Biblios in reservoir." If you run the same search in the OPAC, it says no results. If that is what you get, see these FAQ: FAQ title: My Zebra Indexing won't work! How do I fix it? (AKA: I search for stuff and nothing comes up! Help!) http://koha-community.org/faq/zebra-indexing-wont-work-fix-it-aka-search-stu... See also: FAQ title: I have added rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -z in crontab, however, new entries are not indexed and cannot be found. I have to reindex everything each time with rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -r. What's wrong? http://koha-community.org/faq/added-rebuild_zebra-pl-b-a-z-crontab-however-e... That is our problem, we have to rebuild the index after any new records are added. I can find those records by inserting recent biblionumbers into a search result URL, but the records cannot be found by a keyword or title search until we rebuild Zebra. We had to reinstall from scratch after our server died, and have had this problem ever since. I wonder how many others are still struggling with this... Hope that helps. Pam Bidwell, Lecturer Library/Information Studies School of Education The University of the South Pacific Laucala Campus, Suva, FIJI Tel. (679) 323 2829 Fax: (679) 323 1528 Email: pamela.bidwell@usp.ac.fj L/IS program website: www.usp.ac.fj/library_studies PacLibEd discussion forum: http://staff.usp.ac.fj/mailman/listinfo/paclibed -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Cody Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 11:53 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Troubleshooting Search Issue First of all, thanks to the community here, it has been an invaluable resource in helping me to install koha, and in getting everything off the ground. My problem exists in using the general search feature. I have no problem searching through the cataloging functions. Zebra seems to be completely fine working there, as it can do the Z39.50 searches, as well as search through my uploaded MARC files. The problem is, when I keyword or title search, or even barcode search through the main Search function (url ending in search.pl), I continually get "No Results Found". The items exist when I pull them up manually by barcode for instance, as in the checkin/checkout sections, or when I view the items attached to a MARC entry. Obviously my problem isn't specific enough for anyone to give a specific answer. I'm wondering if given my abilities to search through the Catalog functions, if anyone might be able to tell me where to begin searching out the solution to this problem. I guess I don't know enough about how search.pl works, to start troubleshooting. Specifically, I'm wondering if there are error logs that I might be able to search through. Zebra? MySQL? Apache? (Apache just shows deprecated memcache errors, but no errors regarding searches specifically). Thank you!! _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Thank you Pam for the reply, much appreciated. Sadly, I'm still very confused. I completely reinstalled Koha, explicitly using the instructions at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Ubuntu, and setting up Zebra using the recommended http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Background_indexing_with_Zebra Everything seems to be working fine. I can run the migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl script fine, and have done all of the steps you've talked about (and the sites you linked). I'm not getting any error messages, and from the looks, all of my biblios are being selected correctly and reindexed in Zebra. The problem continues to remain however where I'm not seeing any imported biblios in my Cataloging searches, nor in the OPAC. Any ideas out there? It's probably something completely simple, however I'm thoroughly confused at this point, as I've made sure to follow everything to the letter in the install instructions, and yet a basic feature like search won't work! Thank you all in advance!
Thank you Pam for the reply, much appreciated.
Sadly, I'm still very confused. I completely reinstalled Koha, explicitly using the instructions
Sorry for the spam today. Was able to solve the issue. Minute details that get overlooked in the frustration. Thank you for putting up with this, and thank you very much for the community here!!
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