[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 1.6RC1 problems with Vandelay Authority Records importing

[Repke de Vries]

Thanks Bill

this seems to imply that otherwise our authority records are OK  and  
once imported [1] should kick in when doing bib descriptions and  
Validate ?  Because on the Evergreen DIG Test Server they don't seem  
to do that.

For example:  the first authority record in "subset100.mrc"  (which  
you now also used) has:
=100  0\$aMaloy, Eileen

I would expect then that Creating a New Record and typing Meloy  
instead of Maloy and then Validate (or even just the letter M), would  
bring up this 100 field "Maloy, Eileen" ?!

Not so:  "no matching authority records found" is the message.  I  
know I am spoiled after evaluating MARC authorities treatment in Koha  
but feel at loss with Evergreen.

Thanks - and will remember your "seed data for authority records  
attributes" plea (and bring it to the General list),

Repke
IISH

[1] in 1.4.06 they don't, in 1.6 RC1 at least they do; see my  
"desperate" email to this dev list from October 5th

Op 19-okt-2009, om 17:22 heeft Bill Erickson het volgende geschreven:

>
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Repke de Vries <repke at xs4all.nl>  
> wrote:
> I have encountered the following severe problems with uploading and  
> importing authority records through Vandelay (MARC Batch Import /  
> Export) in 1.6RC1:
>
> 1) I tried to upload and import (Windows 1.t staff client) two sets  
> of standard MARC [1] authority records;  you can find them here:  
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~repke/Evergreen/
> a small subset of 17 records "subset100.mrc" and a somewhat larger  
> one "proef103.mrc" with 1066 records
>
> 2) both upload fine in Vandelay; I ignored the sub choice "oclc" /  
> "sytem local" and went straight for Browse and Upload
>
> 3) however: after upload and for each of the sets of records the  
> staff client is not able to show the list of records: only the  
> heading shows, everything below is blank; playing with different  
> number of records per page and Previous and Next page does not  
> help; closing the staff client and re-inspecting the relevant queue  
> does not help either;
>
> I was able to reproduce the issue with the sample records Dan S.  
> added to the repository.  It should now be fixed with a minor  
> patch:  http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/changeset/14491.  I've  
> back-ported the fix for inclusion in the official 1.6.0.0 release.
>
> Another issue is the lack of seed data for authority records  
> attributes.  Out of the box, when you import a set of authority  
> records, it extracts the identifier column for display and nothing  
> else [1].  The bib records, on the other hand, have a nice set of  
> attribute definitions [2].  Adding some default attribute  
> definitions could be a good community project if anyone is  
> interested....
>
> [1] http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/sql/ 
> Pg/950.data.seed-values.sql#L1854
> [2] http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/Open-ILS/src/sql/ 
> Pg/950.data.seed-values.sql#L1790
>
> -b
>
> -- 
> Bill Erickson
> | VP, Software Development & Integration
> | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
> | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
> | email: erickson at esilibrary.com
> | web: http://esilibrary.com

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