[Koha] Curious behaviour with batch modified records - ghost fields

[Elaine Bradtke]

We've found the problem, it's not with Koha.
Thanks

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jonathan Druart <
jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:

> Hello Elaine,
>
> Is 245$h linked with a koha field?
> Did you keep a version of the record before you managed to remove the
> "ghost" field? If yes, did you try to import it on a fresh install to see
> if the behavior is the same?
> It would be good to have some steps to recreate the issue :)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 at 19:54 Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>
>> We're running 3.22.07 in the test site. I was testing out some batch
>> modification to biblios in Koha.
>> I started out with 440 records that needed to be fixed, but because of a
>> glitch in my report, I didn't capture all the biblio numbers the first go
>> round and had to do the modification twice to catch the last 53.
>>
>> ​The modification: If there was a 245$h present in the record (from a list
>> of biblio numbers), it should be deleted.
>> The first batch of records worked fine.​
>>
>> I checked my results with an advanced search and discovered the 53 records
>> my report had missed, rewrote the report, and picked up those biblio
>> numbers
>>
>> When I applied the same modification to the last batch of 53 records,
>> something strange happened.
>>
>> Running the same advanced search that turned up the stragglers, I found
>> they were still coming up in the results.
>>
>> Looking at the records in the results list,  the field was still
>> displaying.  But when I looked at the MARC view, it was not there.
>> We ran a complete re-index of the data, cleared the browser history, even
>> shut everything down and rebooted my laptop. But these records persist in
>> being found by searching something that isn't there.  And displaying
>> something that isn't there.
>>
>>
>> I have found a way to force this behaviour to stop.  If I open the record
>> for editing, and then close it again (without touching anything), the
>> ghost
>> field stops haunting the record. It looks and behaves in searches as it
>> should.
>>
>> Any ideas why this is happening, and more importantly how to fix it?
>> Or have I dug up another bug?
>>
>>
>> (for the superstitious among you, I was working on these batch
>> modifications on October 31st).
>> --
>> Elaine Bradtke
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Elaine Bradtke
Data Wrangler
VWML
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Tel    +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and
Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send
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