[Koha] Intranet staff client catalog search

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

Please fill a proper bug with all the information you can gather, and we
will discuss it on the bug itself.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Abdulsalam Yousef <ayousef at kwareict.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> It was the system preference ( UseQueryParse )that stopped intranet staff
> client catalog search
> when we stopped it the search has been worked correctly.
>
> But stopping this system preference affected on adding new catalog records
> negatively specially Arabic records, Always the message of (duplicated
> record) appears.
>
> Here's the reason:
> the reason is because (isbn) number in many Arabic records is not necessary
> in old records
> i mean it has the value (NULL) in koha DB and when checking isbn numbers it
> considers the NULL values are for the same record, so it always asking if
> that record is identical to another one in database or not if we entered
> the record without (isbn) number, so i think the following snippet of code
> in (search.pm -->koha v3.16.01)
>
> doesn't exclude NULL values when checking record duplication
>
> # search duplicate on ISBN, easy and fast..
>     # ... normalize first
>     if ( $result->{isbn} ) {
>         $result->{isbn} =~ s/\(.*$//;
>         $result->{isbn} =~ s/\s+$//;
>         $query = "isbn:$result->{isbn}";
>     }
>
> I'm asking if that is a bug???
>
> thanks
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