[Koha] One biblio record not visible in staff interface or OPAC

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi,

On 09.05.23 09:54, library at ssst.edu.ba wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The MARC flavor I chose in the web installer was indeed MARC21, however when I opened /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf to check I see that ZEBRA_MARC_FORMAT="unimarc". If I change this to MARC21 instead, and restart Zebra, will I stop getting errors when I add a record manually vs. via the Z39.50 servers?
If you take a closer look at the file, there are a lot of references to
unimarc and UNIMARC in settings and file paths. You'd need to set all
those correctly to fix your indexing problem and other issues for good.
Maybe a correct MARC21 conf file could be adapted and replace yours, but
I've never tried that.
>
> I'm guessing that since I went through the creation/removal of a Koha instance more than once, with both flavors, when I created the current instance the Zebra indexing setting was left at UNIMARC. I thought this would be an automatic change during the next installation. If I absolutely must I will do it, but I would really like to avoid having to create yet another instance and to have to remake all the html customizations and CSS for the OPAC.
How did you make your changes? If you are using HTML customizations and
system preferences they are all stored in the database and you would be
able to load your existing database into a new instance and keep using it.
>
> There's a setting in Record structure where I recently set the preference for autoControlNumber Value to Control Number (001) is generated as biblionumber. Would this be a correct setting for MARC21 then?
No, it would not be enough, you'd still be experiencing a lot of issues.
I assume every search that is not a keyword search won't work correctly.
> When it comes to the two different flavors, with MARC 21 I got several MARC frameworks (books, serials, DVDs, etc.) in addition to the default one. With UNIMARC, I get the default plus fast cataloging and acquisitions.  Is this the same for others?
At the moment there are more sample frameworks for MARC21 than for
UNIMARC available with the sample data. You can still create your own
frameworks of course.


Hope this helps,

katrin