[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Searching the catalog

[Mike Rylander]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Garry Dunn <garry at trellisconsulting.ca> wrote:
> 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

This is concerning, though this can easily happen if
[parallel_]pg_loader.pl didn't get one or both of '-or mkfe' or '-a
mkfe' in the big, ugly command line argument list.

> metarecord
> metarecord_source_map
>

These (or, rather, the lack thereof) are surely due to not running
quick_metarecord_map.sql or the similar incantation described at:

http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scratchpad:random_magic_spells#how_to_generate_metarecords_for_a_newly_loaded_bib_batch

Otherwise ... something bigger is amiss.

--miker

> 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.
>>
>
> --
>
> Garry Dunn, P.Eng
> Trellis Consulting
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>
>



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