Hello Koha Community, I am writing to introduce myself and my library. We have decided to work with LibLime on implementing Koha at our library and we're interested in keeping up with the community. Mt Laurel Public Library is a small branch library in Alabama. We went live this month (the 10th). Everything is going well except that I have noticed that the books I have added to the catalog in the past week or so are not showing up in the OPAC. They are in the log and they check out but searching them does nothing. If you have any advice for us, feel free to share. Thank you very much, Kate Etheredge Branch Manager
Kate, Welcome! I assume you're running with Zebra as your indexer (most libraries do these days), so it sounds to me like your rebuild_zebra.pl cron job is not set up. This is really easy to do if you have command-line access to your server. - SSH into the the server as the koha user - type 'crontab -e' - Add the line '*/{MINUTES} * * * * {PATH}/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -z', with {MINUTES} replaced by the number of minutes to wait between running the job (I like 2), and {PATH} being the Unix path to the rebuild_zebra.pl file (which may already be declared as a variable in the crontab) - Save and exit the editor to install the new job An example is here: http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=misc/cronjobs/cron... If you don't have command-line access to your server, or you don't feel comfortable doing this, I'm sure that LibLime/PTFS will take care of this for you. They would of course be the ones to help further if it turns out I'm wrong about the root of your problem. Hope this helps, Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Booth # 817 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal 2010/4/24 Kate Etheredge <mrskatee@yahoo.com>
* Hello Koha Community,
I am writing to introduce myself and my library. We have decided to work with LibLime on implementing Koha at our library and we're interested in keeping up with the community.
Mt Laurel Public Library is a small branch library in Alabama. We went live this month (the 10th).
Everything is going well except that I have noticed that the books I have added to the catalog in the past week or so are not showing up in the OPAC. They are in the log and they check out but searching them does nothing. If you have any advice for us, feel free to share.
Thank you very much, Kate Etheredge Branch Manager *
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Hi Kate, In addition to Ian's excellent suggestions you might also have a look at this FAQ: http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/searching/ Kind Regards, Chris 2010/4/24 Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>
Kate,
Welcome!
I assume you're running with Zebra as your indexer (most libraries do these days), so it sounds to me like your rebuild_zebra.pl cron job is not set up. This is really easy to do if you have command-line access to your server.
- SSH into the the server as the koha user - type 'crontab -e' - Add the line '*/{MINUTES} * * * * {PATH}/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -z', with {MINUTES} replaced by the number of minutes to wait between running the job (I like 2), and {PATH} being the Unix path to the rebuild_zebra.plfile (which may already be declared as a variable in the crontab) - Save and exit the editor to install the new job
An example is here: http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=misc/cronjobs/cron...
If you don't have command-line access to your server, or you don't feel comfortable doing this, I'm sure that LibLime/PTFS will take care of this for you. They would of course be the ones to help further if it turns out I'm wrong about the root of your problem.
Hope this helps,
Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Booth # 817 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal
2010/4/24 Kate Etheredge <mrskatee@yahoo.com>
* Hello Koha Community,
I am writing to introduce myself and my library. We have decided to work with LibLime on implementing Koha at our library and we're interested in keeping up with the community.
Mt Laurel Public Library is a small branch library in Alabama. We went live this month (the 10th).
Everything is going well except that I have noticed that the books I have added to the catalog in the past week or so are not showing up in the OPAC. They are in the log and they check out but searching them does nothing. If you have any advice for us, feel free to share.
Thank you very much, Kate Etheredge Branch Manager *
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Hi all, Thank you to community members who helped point me in the right direction. And thanks to Jane Wagner and the team at PTFS for discovering the problem. We are using Koha Express so this list and the Koha docs are my support. The Zebra cronjob was running but I had a Latin-1 encoded character in one of the records which was failing all the records as it couldn't be parsed by Zebra. The offender has been deleted and the catalog is back up to speed. Again, many thanks to everyone! Kate www.mtlaurellibrary.org ________________________________ From: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger@foundations.edu> To: Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com> Cc: Kate Etheredge <mrskatee@yahoo.com>; koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Sat, April 24, 2010 4:48:37 PM Subject: Re: [Koha] Hello and question Hi Kate, In addition to Ian's excellent suggestions you might also have a look at this FAQ: http://koha-community.org/documentation/faq/searching/ Kind Regards, Chris 2010/4/24 Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>
Kate,
Welcome!
I assume you're running with Zebra as your indexer (most libraries do these days), so it sounds to me like your rebuild_zebra.pl cron job is not set up. This is really easy to do if you have command-line access to your server.
- SSH into the the server as the koha user - type 'crontab -e' - Add the line '*/{MINUTES} * * * * {PATH}/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -a -z', with {MINUTES} replaced by the number of minutes to wait between running the job (I like 2), and {PATH} being the Unix path to the rebuild_zebra.pl file (which may already be declared as a variable in the crontab)
- Save and exit the editor to install the new job
An example is here: http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=misc/cronjobs/cron...
If you don't have command-line access to your server, or you don't feel comfortable doing this, I'm sure that LibLime/PTFS will take care of this for you. They would of course be the ones to help further if it turns out I'm wrong about the root of your problem.
Hope this helps,
Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions ALA Booth # 817 Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com
Twitter: @sekjal
2010/4/24 Kate Etheredge <mrskatee@yahoo.com>
Hello Koha Community,
I am writing to introduce myself and my library. We have decided to work with LibLime on implementing Koha at our library and we're interested in keeping up with the community.
Mt Laurel Public Library is a small branch library in Alabama. We went live this month (the 10th).
Everything is going well except that I have noticed that the books I have added to the catalog in the past week or so are not showing up in the OPAC. They are in the log and they check out but searching them does nothing. If you have any advice for us, feel free to share.
Thank you very much, Kate Etheredge
Branch Manager
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