[Koha] Search does not work

Sun Feb 7 04:04:15 NZDT 2021

Hi Inês,

I believe that was not the cause of the issue, but just that the default
setup of UNIMARC is a bit different to the MARC21 one and less
standardized at this point.

The English default for the item fields looks like this currently:

https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha/src/branch/master/installer/data/mysql/en/marcflavour/unimarc/mandatory/unimarc_framework_DEFAULT.sql#L193

I notice there is no subfield set up for items.cn_sort, but also some
others like damaged status (items.damaged) or internal note
(items.itemnotes_nonpublic) appear to be missing.

If you compare to the French files, these look a bit different and more
complete:

https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha/src/branch/master/installer/data/mysql/fr-FR/marcflavour/marc21/Obligatoire/marc21_framework_DEFAULT.sql#L105

So it looks like this depends on the language you chose for your
installation at least and possibly reinstalling is not going to fully
solve it. I'd recommend having a close look at the mappings and
available fields in items again to see that you can complete this a bit
more. You could also report any problems with the defaults to bugzilla,
so we can see about improving them.

The shelf browser should work in theory if your items all have a
callnumber set and that is mapped to items.itemcallnumber correctly.

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 02.02.21 12:05, Inês M. Ferreira wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> We were finally able to check the indexing configuration and you were right that it was set to MARC21 while the rest was UNIMARC. Thank you so much!
>
> I still have a question, however. Is it possible that this problem with the MARC flavours messed up some of the Koha to MARC mappings? For instance, items.cn_source is not mapped to anything.
>
> Meanwhile we upgraded to 20.11 and I've noticed I cannot add local cover images to items (I'm assuming because of the MARC mappings). The shelf browser is also flaky, it works for some items but not all.
>
> Would it be best to uninstall and install again with the correct settings from the start? Or are these symptoms of something else?
>
> Thank you again!
> Inês
>
> ________________________________
> De: Koha <koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz> em nome de Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
> Enviado: domingo, 31 de janeiro de 2021 17:09
> Para: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> Assunto: Re: [Koha] Search does not work
>
> Hi Inês,
>
> the indexing process looks for the biblionumber of your records in a
> specific field and the error points to it not finding it in the field it
> expected it. UNIMARC and MARC21 use different fields for this, so one
> reason can be a configuration mismatch.
>
> So this is the first thing I would check:
>
> Your Koha installation and your indexing configuration both need to be
> set to UNIMARC.
>
> For the installation this is set by the MARC flavor in the web
> installer. As you could catalog your records without issues, I expect
> that to be set correctly. You can also check the marcflavour system
> preference to make sure.
>
> for the index configuration it's set when the instance is created. It
> defaults to MARC21, so needs to be changed to UNIMARC explicitly.
> Possibly the best way to check this is having a look at your
> koha-conf.xml file. If there is a lot MARC21 listed there, it might be
> the source of the issue you are seeing.
>
> Another thing to check in Koha: Go to the Koha-to-MARC-Mappins and look
> up what field biblio.biblionumber is mapped to.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
>
> On 27.01.21 17:36, Inês M. Ferreira wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I was hoping you could guide us through our issue with search.
>>
>> We have installed Koha a few months ago and we cannot get the search to work. Both the OPAC and the staff interface always present the result “No results found”, even though we know we have over 600 records and 1000+ items (e.g. a link to the details page works).
>>
>> Version Koha:    20.05.04.000
>> Version SO ('uname -a'):              Linux koha 5.4.0-58-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 9 08:16:25 UTC 2020 x86_64
>>
>> We use UNIMARC.
>>
>>
>> When attempting to reindex zebra we get the following error:
>>
>> zebraidx(135744) [warn] Record didn’t contain match fields in (bib1,Local-number)
>>
>>
>> Why doesn’t it work? Where do we start?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Inês M. Ferreira
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