[Koha] Fwd: Another authorities issue

[Rachel Hollis]

It works in our Koha 3.01, however when our users click a subject heading, they receive a “No results match your search for ‘an:2812’ in CASI Libraries Catalog” screen, even when we have more than the one item with the subject heading. The message indicates to me that the authority files are being used. We have:
BiblioAddsAuthorities set to ON
dontmerge set to ON
Evidently Koha's on-the-fly authorities is a known issue in 3.01 and is believed to be fixed by 3.0.5.

Rachel Hollis, librarian
Stevens-Henager College, Boise Idaho Campus
2010 Winner of Best Places to Work in Idaho
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-----Original Message-----
From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of savitra sirohi
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:22 AM
To: Nicole Engard
Cc: Koha-Mailingliste
Subject: Re: [Koha] Fwd: Another authorities issue

Nicole, I find that BiblioAddsAuthorities works for me exactly as it
should, this is on 3.00.02. I have zebra rebuilding biblios and
authorities. Perhaps Agnes's installation does not have zebra
rebuilding authorities.

Thanks,
Savitra Sirohi
Nucsoft OSS Labs
http://www.osslabs.biz

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Any ideas about this? Is there a bug reporting that this doesn't work?
>
> Nicole
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm at hanover.ca>
> Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:34 PM
> Subject: Another authorities issue
> To: Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hi Nicole
>
> I remember that the Koha prefs manual mentioned that there should be a
> way to build authorities 'on the fly' -
>
> "BiblioAddsAuthorities
>
> Defines if a new biblio will check for existing authority record and
> create one on-the-fly if one doesn't exist.
>
> Values:
>
>   * ON = a new biblio will check for existing authority record and
>     create one on-the-fly if one doesn't exist."
>
> However I have not been able to get that to work. It seems that as you
> found, you can't do anything if the pref is set to ON.
>
> Also we would need to know more about how this is done (as the whole
> point of authorities is to avoid similar variations of the same name,
> the system should at least prompt the cataloguer with close matches
> before creating a new authority automatically).
>
> So, while you are on the trail, please could you ask around and see
> whether that is supposed to work, and if so, document how?
>
> Many thanks for all your work on a unified manual. I know this can be
> a thankless and unending task, so - we do appreciate it!
>
> Agnes
>
> --
>
> Agnes Rivers-Moore
> Assistant Librarian
> Hanover Public Library
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