Thanks Chris, that seems to have fixed it. So glad it was a Bank Holiday in the UK today, or the library director would have been having kittens by now. Elaine On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>wrote:

* Elaine Bradtke (eb@efdss.org) wrote:

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Strange thing happened after we upgraded to 3.8 (from 3.4). We seem to have ghosts Hits that lead nowhere, in both the OPAC and staff interface. When a search is performed it lists x number of results. Scroll down the list and many of them look normal Some however have a result number, and nothing else - no title, no items, nothing. If you mouseover the link it says biblioitemno= [blank] If you click on edit record, you get a blank form.

It appears that somehow the number of hits is doubling, and half of these are non-existent. This conclusion is from a very small sample set, working with a few titles that I know are unique. The ghost appears immediately following the real record in the hit list. Rebuilt the zebra, and it still does it. We didn't notice it at first, because in the staff interface, the ghosts come at the end of the hit list, and when I test upgrades I tend to go for searches that I know will hit a wide swath of the catalogue, so I didn't see the problem at the end of the list. Oddly, it's more noticeable in the OPAC.

http://catalogue.efdss.org/ if you want to see. Try search terms queen and mogul for a small set of hits.

Is there some setting that would cause this? I admit to meddling with some of the global preferences following the upgrade, but nothing radical. Changing them back didn't seem to fix the problem.

Hi Elaine

One thing you could try is

http://koha-community.org/faq/double-ups-search-results-clear-index-start-ag...

Chris

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