[Koha] problem searching in opac

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Erik Lewis <elewis at ngrl.org> wrote:
> Chris,
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> Thanks for the suggestions.  I just have a hard time imagining it being an index or bad bib record since I haven't added any prior to upgrading, just the intial bib load, which was searching just fine in the OPAC and it is still working in the staff client.

Sounds reasonable.

> What I think I'll do is set the OPAC and enhanced content sysprefs back to the defaults specified in the documentation and see if I can determine if its a syspref problem.  Any other sysprefs that could be in play outside of those groups?

I'd love to say an unqualified 'no,' however I really do not know.
Perhaps someone else can comment on that. There are several OPAC
options under the "Searching" tab. There may be others in other
places. A search of the sysprefs on the terms "OPAC" and "search"
shows up quite a few prefs, however, I'm not sure what all might
affect this issue.

Kind Regards,
Chris

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> On Mar 23, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Erik Lewis <elewis at ngrl.org> wrote:
>>> Chris,
>>> Ideas on a next step?  Are OPAC sysprefs the probable culprit?  Just want to be efficient as I roll up my sleeves.
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>> You could:
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>> 1. Truncate your systempreferences table and then reload it with the
>> default syspref.sql file. (WARNING: This will remove ALL of your
>> custom system preference settings... you've been warned. You could do
>> mysqldump -t -ukohaadmin -p koha systempreferences > my_sysprefs.sql
>> (I believe that is correct) and save your old settings.
>> 2. Re test the opac search and see if that fixed it.
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>> If it does not, if you are running over git, you could:
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>> 1. create a separate test database.
>> 2. modify koha-conf.xml to look at the new db.
>> 3. checkout a test branch based on master (ie. git checkout master &&
>> git checkout -b testbranch)
>> 4. run through the web installer and install the sample data.
>> 5. re-index zebra (./rebuild_zebra.pl -r -a -b -v)
>> 6. check out the opac search and see if it works.
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>> If this second solution works, I'd suggest you have imported some
>> corrupt bibs and/or items.
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>> Kind Regards,
>> Chris
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