Thanks Chris, that seems to have fixed it. So glad it was a Bank Holiday in the UK today, or the library director would have been having kittens by now. Elaine
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Chris Cormack <chr...@catalyst.net.nz>wrote: > * Elaine Bradtke (e...@efdss.org) wrote: > > Strange thing happened after we upgraded to 3.8 (from 3.4). We seem to > have > > ghosts > > Hits that lead nowhere, in both the OPAC and staff interface. > > When a search is performed it lists x number of results. > > Scroll down the list and many of them look normal > > Some however have a result number, and nothing else - no title, no items, > > nothing. If you mouseover the link it says biblioitemno= [blank] > > If you click on edit record, you get a blank form. > > > > It appears that somehow the number of hits is doubling, and half of these > > are non-existent. This conclusion is from a very small sample set, > working > > with a few titles that I know are unique. The ghost appears immediately > > following the real record in the hit list. > > Rebuilt the zebra, and it still does it. > > We didn't notice it at first, because in the staff interface, the ghosts > > come at the end of the hit list, and when I test upgrades I tend to go > for > > searches that I know will hit a wide swath of the catalogue, so I didn't > > see the problem at the end of the list. > > Oddly, it's more noticeable in the OPAC. > > > > http://catalogue.efdss.org/ if you want to see. > > Try search terms queen and mogul for a small set of hits. > > > > Is there some setting that would cause this? I admit to meddling with > some > > of the global preferences following the upgrade, but nothing radical. > > Changing them back didn't seem to fix the problem. > > Hi Elaine > > One thing you could try is > > http://koha-community.org/faq/double-ups-search-results-clear-index-start-again/ > > Chris > > -- > Chris Cormack > Catalyst IT Ltd. > +64 4 803 2238 > PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand > -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
