[Koha] Search not working

i.pratt at zigzagee.com i.pratt at zigzagee.com
Thu Feb 23 04:13:33 NZDT 2017


Katrin,

This was my problem. Search wasn't working because there was some
  confusion between UNIMARC & MARC21 during the installation. The
  option to choose the flavour is presented with the koha-create $instance &
  koha 1st time web installation.

Regards,
Ian

On 19/02/2017 22:08, Katrin wrote:
> Hi Vanda,
>
> when using UNIMARC you will have to choose it in 2 places, maybe one 
> was missed?
>
> Before the instance is created, you need to tell Koha that it will be 
> using UNIMARC. You can do so by changing ZEBRA_MARC_FORMAT="marc21" in 
> /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf to "unimarc". This will affect the indexing 
> configuration and can be the cause of why your search might not work, 
> when the records itself look correct.
>
> Then, when running the web installer, you also need to make sure 
> UNIMARC is selected there. This will affect which cataloguing 
> frameworks (MARC field and subfield definitions) are installed.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
> On 17.02.2017 13:19, vanda koha wrote:
>> Hello Ian,
>>
>> We are still unable to solve our problem. We have done everything we 
>> were
>> told to do, including what you mention in your message. Unfortunately
>> nothing worked.
>>
>> And yes, we chose UNIMARC when the package installation was 
>> performed. My
>> computer collegues say that we also have some references to MARC21 in
>> the  the koha-conf.xml file and apparently it is supposed to be that 
>> way.
>> Still loking for an answer...
>>
>> Regrads
>>
>> Vanda
>>
>> 2017-02-16 19:13 GMT+00:00 i.pratt at zigzagee.com <i.pratt at zigzagee.com>:
>>
>>> Vanda,
>>>
>>> Just out of interest, did you choose UNIMARC when the package 
>>> installation
>>> was performed ?
>>>
>>> I did and I'm facing the same search problems as you. I note the
>>> koha-conf.xml file seems to
>>>   have a lot of MARC21 references. Not sure if this needs to change to
>>> UNIMARC. This was just the template file that was generated through the
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> I tried the koha-rebuild-zebra -f -a -b -v $instance approach 
>>> recommended
>>> but that didn't
>>>   fix the search problems. if you want to know where it is just use 
>>> >which
>>> koha-rebuild-zebra
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ian
>>>
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