Thanks Katrin, I actually do a full zebra indexing before importing the next batch.
Does any one know any easy way to get multiple items into a MarcEdit batch? Olugbenga Adara Skype: gbengaadara Blog: http://gbengaadara.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/gbengaadara Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gbengaadara ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fischer, Katrin" <katrin.fisc...@bsz-bw.de> > To: Olugbenga Adara <gbengaad...@yahoo.com>; koha-user > <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:15 PM > Subject: Re: [Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha > > Hi, > > I think what you see could be related to how the matching works. > It uses Zebra - so in order for Zebra to find the matching record, the record > has to be indexed first. If you import multiple records in one batch import, > that might not be the case at the moment the import is looking for a matching > record. > > In my experience it works best with all items on one record or importing all > bibliographic records without duplicates and without items in a first batch > and > then the records with items in a second step. > > Hope that helps, > > Katrin > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha- >> boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Olugbenga Adara >> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:08 PM >> To: Olugbenga Adara; koha-user >> Subject: Re: [Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha >> >> This is now really getting weird. >> >> The second copies Marc file has 2902 records. When this file is staged, it >> says 500 records were not matched. I split the file into 6 files of which 5 >> have 500 records each and the last with 402 record. >> >> Staging each of these files always says 60 records not >> matched, totaling 360 compared with the earlier 500. >> >> I now split one of the 500 records Marc file into 100s each and tried >> importing again. For each file it says 20 records not matched, making 100 >> that will not be matched compared to 60 if i import the 500 record file >> once. >> >> Am I experiencing a bug? >> >> As usual, any pointers / help would be appreciated >> >> Thanks >> >> Olugbenga Adara >> >> >> Skype: gbengaadara >> Blog: http://gbengaadara.blogspot.com >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/gbengaadara >> Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gbengaadara >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: Olugbenga Adara <gbengaad...@yahoo.com> >> > To: koha-user <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> >> > Cc: >> > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:11 AM >> > Subject: [Koha] Issues with biblio import into Koha >> > >> > Hello all, >> > >> > This has got me stumped! >> > >> > I am trying to import some set of bib records into Koha totaling about >> 5300. >> > About 2900 of these records have two items while the remaining has >> > just one item. >> > >> > Using MarcEdit, I have created two MARC files, the first with the >> > first or only copies of the records, while the 2nd has the records > having >> only the 2nd copy. >> > >> > I created a unique 001 field for each record and then created a record >> > matching rule based on 001 (Local-number). After importing the MARC >> > file of the 1st copy, I rebuild the zebra index before importing >> the Marc file for the second copy. >> > >> > Now the problem is that is that during the second copies import, it >> > says about 500 of the records were not matched, matching the >> > remainder. I had first tried this with a title match but got a similar >> > result. I checked that the records not matched actually exist in the > Koha >> database with the correct 001 value. >> > I don't understand why some records do not match and some do. >> > >> > The database is fresh with just only one previous bib in it before the >> imports. >> > >> > Can anyone please point me in the right direction to sort this out? Or >> > a better way to do the import? >> > >> > I am running Koha 3.10.4 on debian squeeze (package install) >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > Olugbenga Adara >> > >> > >> > Skype: gbengaadara >> > Blog: http://gbengaadara.blogspot.com >> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/gbengaadara >> > Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gbengaadara >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz >> > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz >> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
