[Koha] MARC export - not exporting everything?

[Nicole Engard]

Manual updated with a note about this :
http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=kohadocs.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea69b89c05f316f8b39e1238d479f8f0212569f6

Nicole

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
> Thank you again Bernardo.  It is currently set to specific item.  That
> explains at least some of the strange behaviour.  I'll change it and test
> it tomorrow but I think this may solve the problem.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <
> bgkriegel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Elaine,
>> what's the value of your syspref item-level_itypes?
>> (Admin > System preferences > Cataloguing)
>>
>> If it's set to 'specific item' then you won't get any results from the
>> export unless there is a item on the bibliographic records.
>> If you set it to 'biblio record' then you can export records without items.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bernardo
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
>> bgkriegel at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>>
>>> With a feeling of deja vu. . .  it's a bug I filed two years ago
>>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7425
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > l looked at bug 11940.  Our records aren't usually very large, and my
>>> > first attempt was for a subset of records that do not have any items
>>> > attached.  The problem reported in 11940 seems to be something that
>>> happens
>>> > when there are too many items.
>>> > I have tested an XML export of of the subset of records selected by item
>>> > type, but got the same results, an empty file.
>>> > However,  export all records with items attached does work in XML
>>> (whereas
>>> > it doesn't in plain MARC).
>>> >
>>> > Part of the problems seems to be related to limiting by item type. I'm
>>> > assuming this item type is the one stored in MARC21 942$c  If it was
>>> > pulling it from the item record that would explain why I get 0 records
>>> if I
>>> > limit it by item type.
>>> >
>>> > I'm looking around on Bugzilla now to see if anything matches what we're
>>> > experiencing.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz
>>> >wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Elaine Bradtke schreef op wo 19-03-2014 om 23:40 [+0000]:
>>> >> > No errors showed up in the logs.
>>> >> > I can export the whole catalogue (minus the items) by selecting don't
>>> >> > export items.  Otherwise, all I get are empty files.  I haven't tried
>>> >> > exporting single items.
>>> >>
>>> >> Hmm, that contradicts "and selecting 'Don't export
>>> >> items' but this resulted in another empty file."
>>> >>
>>> >> If it works without items, then it's possibly bug 11940. Have you tried
>>> >> exporting as XML, that tends to not have problems with overlarge
>>> >> records.
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
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>>> Elaine Bradtke
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>
>
> --
> Elaine Bradtke
> Data Wrangler
> VWML
> English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org
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