[Koha] Catalog searches working with Keyword search but not with Title and Author in Koha 3

[Ricardo Dias Marques]

Hi all,

Following up to myself, just to keep (possible) interested readers updated:

My problem was that searches were only working for "Keyword" searches,
*but not* for "Title" or "Author" searches.

I'm running the Koha 3 developer snapshot that was available on
28-May-2008. The Koha database version is 3.00.00.086. I'm using
UNIMARC with Zebra disabled.

In 30th May 2008, I entered the #koha IRC channel. Paul Poulain
(paul), Galen Charlton (gmcharlt) and Henri-Damien Laurent (hdl)
helped me working through this problem and have identified it as being
caused by the "NoZebraIndexes" system preference being wrongly set
with MARC21 values, even for UNIMARC installations. The problem
happens, at least, for installations when the selected language was
"en" (English). It may (or not) happen for other languages, too.

Paul Poulain asked me to report this as a BUG in the Koha bugs
database. I reported it as the following bug:

Bug 2178 - "NoZebraIndexes" system preference is being set to MARC21
values in UNIMARC installations
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2178

I would like to thank Paul Poulain, Galen Charlton and Henri-Damien
Laurent for all the help they gave me troubleshooting this problem.

Best wishes,
Ricardo Dias Marques
lists AT ricmarques DOT net



On Thu, May 29, 2008, Ricardo Dias Marques <lists at ricmarques.net> wrote:

> Like I said in previous posts, I'm running Koha in a Xen virtual
> machine running Linux (openSUSE 10.3), Apache 2.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.45.
>
> I'm running the Koha 3 developer snapshot that was available yesterday
> (28-May-2008). The Koha database version is 3.00.00.086.
>
> I'm using UNIMARC. I have disabled Zebra, by setting the "NoZebra"
> System Preference to ON. I have also set the "singleBranchMode" System
> Preference to ON.
>
> The bibliographic records were inserted in Koha by running the
> bulkmarcimport.pl script "through" an ISO file (that contained about
> 9000 bibliographic records of articles):
>
> # /root/Koha/misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl -c UNIMARC -file
> /root/myfile.iso
>
>
> My problem is that only "Keyword" searches in the Catalog are working
> (and NOT searches in other fields, like in the Title or in the Author
> fields).
>
>
> For instance, in the OPAC search page -
> http://hostname/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl - I'm searching for
> "networks" (without the quotes).
> I'm leaving the "Keyword" option as the dropdown option selected (for
> the first of the 3 dropdown lists that appear), writing "networks"
> (without the quotes) in the text box at its right and clicking in the
> "OK" blue button at the bottom of the page.
>
> I then get redirected to the search results page that has the following URL:
>
> http://hostname/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=kw&q=networks&idx=kw&idx=kw&sort_by=relevance&do=OK
>
> This search returns 154 results:
>
> _______________
>
> "kw,wrdl: networks" returned 154 results
> _______________
>
>
> Many of these search results have the word "networks" in its Title (as
> it would be expected) [snip]:
>
>
> I get the following errors in the /var/log/koha/koha-opac-error_log
> log file for this search for "networks":
> _______________
>
> [Thu May 29 15:17:08 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.2] EXPR:at pos 8:
> non-initialized variable category, referer:
> http://hostname/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl
> [Thu May 29 15:17:08 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.2] [Thu May 29
> 15:17:08 2008] opac-search.pl: PARAM:LOOP:next_loop:hash pointer was
> expected but not found at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Template/Pro.pm
> line 191., referer: http://hostname/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl
> _______________
>
>
> The behavior of searches in the "Intranet" area is the same: catalog
> searches work with Keyword, but not with Title (or Author, for that
> matter) [snip]
>
>
> This search for "networks" in the Title field in the "Intranet"
> creates the following entry in the /var/log/koha/koha-error_log log
> file:
>
> _______________
>
> [Thu May 29 15:20:57 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.2] [Thu May 29
> 15:20:57 2008] search.pl: ti,wrdl= networks  at
> /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/catalogue/search.pl line 435.,
> referer: http://hostname:8080/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl
> _______________
>
>
> I have run the Perl script rebuild_nozebra.pl but the results are the
> same [snip]