[Koha] Curious searching problem with zebra

[Bob Ewart]

Thanks Kurt,

the 245 indicators are 0 0 on all three.  I tried 'or the band played
on' with no success either.

I did install koha on a freshly installed openSUSE 11.3 32-bit system
with no change in the results.

When people say to turn stopwords off, is that 'Ignore' or 'Don't
ignore'?  Shouldn't make a difference, since it's not supposed to apply
to zebra.

I just tried to search on 'and' and got nothing with either setting of
the QueryRemoveStopwords preference.

At this point I'm stumped.  I guess I'll just have to tell my librarians
to not use the word 'and' in searches.

On 12/16/2010 10:45 AM, Kurt Bodling wrote:
> Here's an idea (whether it's worth anything is for someone else to
> decide):
> 
> Is it possible that your MARC field 245 second indicator is 4?  That
> would indicate skipping the first four characters in the title "and_"
> for filing purposes.  I don't know how zebra plays with that, if at all.
> 
> If zebra ignores MARC directions (as I guess is likely) does the word
> "and" act in its Boolean function, making the search look for "  " AND
> "the band played on" together in the same record?  And since there is no
> null set to coordinate with the title words, you get nothing returned.
> Would searching "or the band played on" retrieve the 3 records?
> 
> Again, pure speculation on my part.
> 
> Kurt
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-
>> bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Bob Ewart
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:32 PM
>> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> Subject: [Koha] Curious searching problem with zebra
>>
>> I'm running koha 3.02.01 on a 64-bit openSUSE 11.3 system with zebra.
>> I
>> have 3 biblios for 'And the band played on', a book, a tape and a DVD.
>>
>> When I search for 'and the band played on', it finds nothing.
>> When I search for 'the band played on', it finds all three.
>>
>> I've done a complete rebuild of the zebra index.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> --
>> Bob
>>
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Bob