[Koha] OPAC Search Error in KOHA 1711.0001

[Jonathan Druart]

Good catch Colin, See bug 19978

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 at 13:03 Campbell, Colin <colin.campbell at ptfs-europe.com>
wrote:

> Found another scenario causing this bug. GetItemTypesCategorized returns
> itemtypes and searchcategories. (previously only itemtypes were returned by
> the now replaced routine). If a searchcategory is used and there is not an
> itemtype with the samename the find returns no object, triggering the error.
>
> On 26 December 2017 at 20:57, Jonathan Druart <
> jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:
>
>> If you have technical skills you can try to add this line:
>>
>> @ opac-search.pl:229 @ my $itemtypes = GetItemTypesCategorized;
>>  # add translated_description to itemtypes
>>  foreach my $itemtype ( keys %{$itemtypes} ) {
>>      # Itemtypes search categories don't have (yet) translated
>> descriptions, they are auth values (and could still have no descriptions
>> too BZ 18400)
>> +    warn $itemtype;
>>      my $translated_description = Koha::ItemTypes->find( $itemtype
>> )->translated_description;
>>      $itemtypes->{$itemtype}->{translated_description} =
>> $translated_description || $itemtypes->{$itemtype}->{description} || q{};
>>  }
>>
>> Then restart plack, reload the page and look at the Koha logs.
>> It will display the different item types of the search result, the one
>> just
>> before the error is the one that is not defined in Koha.
>>
>
>> On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 at 17:37 Mubassir Ahsan <mahsandu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Dear Jonathan,
>> > Thanks for the reply. I have executed the query and manually search in
>> the
>> > database for missing itemtype and then fix all, but the problem is still
>> > there.
>> >
>> > only Disabling the lines makes searching possible.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 1:42 AM Jonathan Druart <
>> > jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> Yes, it's a bug and a configuration issue.
>> >> It means you have item types that are used in your catalogue but not
>> >> defined in Koha.
>> >>
>> >> There was a discussion on koha-devel in July:
>> >>
>> http://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2017-July/043841.html
>> >>
>> >> To know the item types that are not defined in Koha, you can execute
>> the
>> >> following query:
>> >> If item-level_itypes is "specific item"
>> >>    select distinct(itype) from items left join itemtypes on
>> >> itype=itemtype where itemtype is null;
>> >> If item-level_itypes is "biblio record"
>> >>   select distinct(bi.itemtype) from biblioitems bi left join itemtypes
>> it
>> >> on bi.itemtype=it.itemtype where bi.itemtype is null;
>> >>
>> >> It is a bug in the sense that Koha should not crash brutally in that
>> >> case. We should at least display a warning on the about page.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Jonathan
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 at 15:49 Mubassir Ahsan <mahsandu at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I have got a serious problem after upgrading to the latest version
>> today.
>> >>> The problem is when I search in OPAC search interface it is returning
>> >>> "Can't call method "translated_description" on an undefined value at
>> >>> /usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/opac/opac-search.pl line 229."
>> >>>
>> >>> I have cleaned the previous 1711 version and reinstall, but still no
>> >>> luck.
>> >>> Please help . I am attaching screenshot to better understand.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
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>> >>>
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