[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Searching the catalog

[Garry Dunn]

Jason & Dan,

Thanks for the replies.  We haven't solved this one yet, but you 
certainly gave me a few more ideas to look into.

Setting 'staged searching' to false didn't change anything and I 
remember checking out the org units (based on the query given in the 
wiki), so I think we're OK there.

I went back to a blank database and imported the Gutenberg records and
I'm still getting zero search results (in the staff client and the
catalog (with 'source=3')).

With the Gutenberg records, looking at the metabib schema, I have 
records in:

author_field_entry
full_rec
rec_descriptor
series_field_entry
subject_field_entry
title_field_entry

but none in:

keyword_field_entry
metarecord
metarecord_source_map

I'm not sure what that means!

I'll have to load our records in again to see what happens with those 
tables.

I'm hoping to be trying this on another test system (loaded by another 
team member).  I'll let you know how that goes.

Is there anything else I should be checking?

Thanks again.

Dan Scott wrote:
> 2009/4/13 Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>:
>>> So what's wrong, you ask?  If I try a basic catalog search (in the OPAC or
>>> the staff client) I get zero results, regardless of what I search for.
>> Garry, did you figure this out?  Have you tried direct lookups by TCN
>> or item barcode?
>>
>>> Any ideas on where to start to correct this problem?
>> I'd start looking at the various metabib.* tables, and see if they're
>> getting populated.
> 
> This is certainly a good idea. If they are indeed populated, I have
> another idea...
> 
> One change between 1.2 and 1.4 is the staged search, which is much
> faster than the regular old 1.2 search. However, staged search is also
> much pickier about your org_unit hierarchy; if you have one org_unit
> at the wrong depth, or skip a depth in the hierarchy, your search is
> going to return nothing.
> 
> You can tell if you are using staged search by checking for
> <use_staged_search>true</use_staged_search> in opensrf.xml - if
> changing it to "false" makes a difference, this is a pretty strong
> clue that you need to double-check actor.org_unit and
> actor.org_unit_type.
> 

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