[Koha] What is the point of the Undo Import into catalogue feature?

Tomas Cohen Arazi tomascohen at gmail.com
Sat Dec 3 00:35:13 NZDT 2016


File a bug report for that issue, please.

El vie., 2 de dic. de 2016 1:26 AM, Raymund Delahunty <
r.delahunty at arts.ac.uk> escribió:

> We regularly import large files of MARC records into our Koha (16.05)
> database which have to be deleted at a later date… sometimes months later,
> and sometimes maybe 30,000 records. I have been using the Undo import
> (sort-of “unstage”) as I found this functionality astoundingly useful. It
> automated a task, reducing a tedious job to a couple of keystrokes.
>
> However I was dismayed to find that after a recent “Undo” of 13,000
> records our database was left over 7,000 “phantom records”- they didn’t
> exist but the indexing had failed to remove all traces of them
>
> We were advised to use the batch record deletion tool, as the Undo feature
> wasn’t designed to be used in the way I was using it. “… it is meant to
> unstage records nearer to the point in time of being added”. (And what’s
> the point of that?) We had to have our database re-indexed to resolve the
> problem. Is there any point in the Undo feature if the indexer can’t cope?
> I hate to think what other dross I had left behind in earlier “Undos”!
>
> Ray Delahunty
> University of the Arts London
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