At 04:32 PM 9/25/2014 -0500, Coehoorn, Joel wrote: [snip]
The point of this is that, from our librarians perspective, without a better search experience, Koha is "broken".
Those are their words, not mine. Here's the thing: when I run a search in Koha, I do get back lots of results from our catalog that are highly relevant to the search terms. But these are exact title matches, and they come back with "Not found".
How can I improve this?
How do you re-index Zebra? Are your cron jobs working properly and regularly? Do you do a complete re-index (manually) from time to time? As an aside, we have found that using the "library catalogue" search (not 'title', nor 'author') and just putting in a couple of keywords from the title and the author's surname works remarkably well... Paul --- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>
That's right: I should have said more about my environment :/ We're running Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. I don't have good notes on the original koha installation. There were a couple false starts, and so I'm not sure if this is packages or other. ... It's amazing what just gathering information to post a real question can do. In examining my system to make sure I'm posting accurate information about how indexes are created, I see that the koha-common file in the /etc/cron.d folder, which includes the command to rebuild indexes, did not have execute permissions. I've fixed that, and I'll post back what the result is. This may fix another nagging issue for us, as well. Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology York College, Nebraska 402.363.5603 *jcoehoorn@york.edu <jcoehoorn@york.edu>* The mission of York College is to transform lives through Christ-centered education and to equip students for lifelong service to God, family, and society On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Paul A <paul.a@navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
At 04:32 PM 9/25/2014 -0500, Coehoorn, Joel wrote: [snip]
The point of this is that, from our librarians perspective, without a better search experience, Koha is "broken".
Those are their words, not mine. Here's the thing: when I run a search in Koha, I do get back lots of results from our catalog that are highly relevant to the search terms. But these are exact title matches, and they come back with "Not found".
How can I improve this?
How do you re-index Zebra? Are your cron jobs working properly and regularly? Do you do a complete re-index (manually) from time to time?
As an aside, we have found that using the "library catalogue" search (not 'title', nor 'author') and just putting in a couple of keywords from the title and the author's surname works remarkably well...
Paul
--- Maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts. <http://NavalMarineArchive.com> and <http://UltraMarine.ca>
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Coehoorn, Joel schreef op vr 26-09-2014 om 08:34 [-0500]:
I see that the koha-common file in the /etc/cron.d folder, which includes the command to rebuild indexes, did not have execute permissions.
It probably won't help, as that file is not a script and so doesn't need execute permissions. I'd look at your logs. Both syslog to make sure that the relevant cron tasks are running: Sep 30 11:10:01 server /USR/SBIN/CRON[24746]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/koha-rebuild-zebra && koha-rebuild-zebra -q $(koha-list --enabled)) (are there related errors directly following that?) and /var/log/koha/instancename/zebra*.log, which ideally should be empty. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
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