[Koha] Query terms truncated

[Stacy Pober]

Thank you for your immediate and helpful response.

You wrote:

> You must know that LEK is not Koha : it's a unreleased fork of the official   Koha.

Trust me, I know, I know.   When we talked about changing to Koha, I
was looking forward to having a user community to help with problems.

It's interesting that I got an immediate answer from my questions to
this list.  This was not the first place I asked, but I'm very
frustrated with the lack of response from the vendor.    Most of my
direct emails to LibLime staff and to their support list have gone
unanswered.

Thanks again. Can anyone from a MARC 21 library tell me if truncation
issue is happening with their Koha catalog?

Stacy



On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Stacy Pober a écrit :
>>
>> We are using Koha version 3.01.00.037 with LibLime Enterprise Koha
>> build: 4.0000010.
>>
>
> Hi Stacy,
>>
>> We have QueryFuzzy, QueryStemming and QueryAutoTruncate all set to OFF
>> but the truncation still seems to be happening in every search.
>
> You must know that LEK is not Koha : it's a unreleased fork of the official
> Koha.
> In official Koha, afaik, the problem you describe does not exist (someone
> else on this list may have experimented your problem. I'm a UNIMARC guy,
> you're a MARC21 library, maybe there's a difference on some internals, but I
> don't think so)
>>
>> Isthere another setting
>> to suppress trunction of search terms that I may be missing?
>>
>
> No (in official Koha, dunno for LEK)
>>
>> Also, title searches seem to be searching the MARC 505 notes field,
>> which includes
>> the titles of each chapter, rather than the title for the work as a
>> whole.  Is this a
>> behavior that can be altered?   In most library catalog systems, a
>> title search does
>> not search in the table of contents/notes fields.
>>
>
> I confirm, and it's the behaviour of official Koha. You can look this file :
> http://git.biblibre.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=koha;a=blob_plain;f=etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs;hb=37d8ab6e831cd7f2cdf5919ddd2ebc2fa0ee3172
> (it's the MARC21 indexes definition file from developpers repository)
>
> the line
>
> melm 505$t      Title
>
> means the 505$t is indexed as a title
>
> That can be changed, but not by the library, just by the techie guy (LL I
> suspect). Once it's done, zebra must be reindexed (byt the techie guy as
> well)
>
> --
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> Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc
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>
>



-- 
Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College Library
Riverdale, NY 10471
stacy.pober at manhattan.edu