[Koha] zebra - item-level_itypes errors

[Tom Hanstra]

Since I'm not a cataloger at all, can you (or others) give me a bit of
information about what I might gain or lose by changing the system
preference:

item_level_itypes

from "specific item"
to "biblio record"

in the global settings?

That does seem to address the indexing errors.  But what might I be losing
in the process?

Thanks,
Tom

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Pedro Amorim <pjamorim91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Tom,
>
> This is caused by the system preference item-level-itypes being set to
> "specific item".
> In our case, it happened because upon importing data, this information was
> set at the record level, not the item level, so we changed it back to
> "record level".
> AFAIK this is harmless database-wise, however, it can cause problems in
> circulation when checking the type of the item being checked out or in
> searching records by type.
>
> Here are my findings while messing with ElasticSearch not a long time ago
> (it's somewhat related to this):
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18163
>
> What I advise to do is to keep the syspref according to your data, if you
> have the information at the record level, set it back.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Pedro Amorim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2017-04-19 16:13 GMT+00:00 Tom Hanstra <hanstra at nd.edu>:
>
>> I'm installing Koha 16.11 and picked up the 06 release.
>>
>> Installation went fine, however when indexing with Zebra, I'm getting a
>> number of records which give the error:
>>
>> item-level_itypes set but no itemtype set for item (item#) at
>> /usr/share/koha/lib/Koha/Schema/Result/Item.pm line 698
>>
>> I saw a thread suggesting that these types of records might have the
>> onloan
>> value not set to NULL, but I checked and all of my records have onloan
>> either set to NULL or to a valid date value.
>>
>> I also saw that some of these problems might have been fixed by bug 17502.
>> It is not clear to me if that bug fix was included in the 16.11.06 tar
>> package.
>>
>> Do I have database problems with these records? If so, what should I be
>> looking for?
>>
>> Or is there something else that can cause this problem?
>>
>> Or is the patch missing from this download?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any pointers I can get.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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>>
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*Tom Hanstra*
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