[Koha] Cannot edit record if indexing fails?

Martin Longo jmlongo at uncu.edu.ar
Sun Apr 5 03:30:41 NZST 2009


En su momento, Martin Longo escribió:
> Hi there !
>
> I need help with a problem I'm trying to figure out testing koha 
> (3.000.1 stable). Followed all the steps recommended for working with UTF-8
>
> The scenario goes like this:
>
> We have 13 and some libraries that we want to manage with Koha. Right 
> now I'm testing the import tools (web based and command line) with 
> records from one of those databases (around 50.000 records). The two 
> tools work fine and get the work done, but when the records are more 
> than 5000 the web based interface takes too long and sometimes it never 
> ends...
>
> One problem arises when I rebuild the zebra index. The process rejects 
> some records (I don't know how many). AFAIK, in this records, the script 
> chokes on 952 records that have a Ü (capitalized U with a dieresis) or a 
> Ö (capitalized O with a dieresis) character on the shelving location 
> subfield (I send some images as attachment).
> The problem is not with every ü character. in fact, if they are present 
> i.e. in the author field and not in the 952 field, they pass to the 
> index and I can find them without any problem.
>
> The thing that makes things more dificult is that... even if I wanted to 
> fix this records by hand with Koha cataloging interface... I can't, 
> because I can't search for them (I can search for them, but I can't find 
> or retrieve them, because they weren't indexed)...
>
> So ... I can "fix" (they are correct, I shouldn't need to fix them, but 
> I could change the conflictive characters where needed) those records in 
> the original database and bulkmarcimport them deleting everything (-d 
> option). That would be a nice solution for the first database ... but 
> there are 13 of them ... and I don't want to be erasing 'n-1' databases 
> when I hit a similar problem importing the database number 'n'...
>
> So ... anyone can give some advice on how to solve this?
> is there a way to find/edit records without having to search for them?
> or .. better .. is there a way to patch/fix the indexing process, so 
> those characters can pass without problem? 
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>   
Sorry .. I forgot to attach the images ...

-- 
Ing. J. Martin Longo
Depto. Gestion Informatica
SID - UNCuyo
http://sid.uncu.edu.ar

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