[Koha] MARC export - not exporting everything?

Elaine Bradtke eb at efdss.org
Tue Mar 25 13:19:27 NZDT 2014


Thank you again Bernardo.  It is currently set to specific item.  That
explains at least some of the strange behaviour.  I'll change it and test
it tomorrow but I think this may solve the problem.



On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <
bgkriegel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Elaine,
> what's the value of your syspref item-level_itypes?
> (Admin > System preferences > Cataloguing)
>
> If it's set to 'specific item' then you won't get any results from the
> export unless there is a item on the bibliographic records.
> If you set it to 'biblio record' then you can export records without items.
>
> Regards,
> Bernardo
>
>
> --
> Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
> bgkriegel at gmail.com
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>
>> With a feeling of deja vu. . .  it's a bug I filed two years ago
>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7425
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>>
>> > l looked at bug 11940.  Our records aren't usually very large, and my
>> > first attempt was for a subset of records that do not have any items
>> > attached.  The problem reported in 11940 seems to be something that
>> happens
>> > when there are too many items.
>> > I have tested an XML export of of the subset of records selected by item
>> > type, but got the same results, an empty file.
>> > However,  export all records with items attached does work in XML
>> (whereas
>> > it doesn't in plain MARC).
>> >
>> > Part of the problems seems to be related to limiting by item type. I'm
>> > assuming this item type is the one stored in MARC21 942$c  If it was
>> > pulling it from the item record that would explain why I get 0 records
>> if I
>> > limit it by item type.
>> >
>> > I'm looking around on Bugzilla now to see if anything matches what we're
>> > experiencing.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Elaine Bradtke schreef op wo 19-03-2014 om 23:40 [+0000]:
>> >> > No errors showed up in the logs.
>> >> > I can export the whole catalogue (minus the items) by selecting don't
>> >> > export items.  Otherwise, all I get are empty files.  I haven't tried
>> >> > exporting single items.
>> >>
>> >> Hmm, that contradicts "and selecting 'Don't export
>> >> items' but this resulted in another empty file."
>> >>
>> >> If it works without items, then it's possibly bug 11940. Have you tried
>> >> exporting as XML, that tends to not have problems with overlarge
>> >> records.
>> >>
>> >>
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>> Elaine Bradtke
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Elaine Bradtke
Data Wrangler
VWML
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