Hello Elaine, Is 245$h linked with a koha field? Did you keep a version of the record before you managed to remove the "ghost" field? If yes, did you try to import it on a fresh install to see if the behavior is the same? It would be good to have some steps to recreate the issue :)
Regards, Jonathan On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 at 19:54 Elaine Bradtke <e...@efdss.org> wrote: > We're running 3.22.07 in the test site. I was testing out some batch > modification to biblios in Koha. > I started out with 440 records that needed to be fixed, but because of a > glitch in my report, I didn't capture all the biblio numbers the first go > round and had to do the modification twice to catch the last 53. > > βThe modification: If there was a 245$h present in the record (from a list > of biblio numbers), it should be deleted. > The first batch of records worked fine.β > > I checked my results with an advanced search and discovered the 53 records > my report had missed, rewrote the report, and picked up those biblio > numbers > > When I applied the same modification to the last batch of 53 records, > something strange happened. > > Running the same advanced search that turned up the stragglers, I found > they were still coming up in the results. > > Looking at the records in the results list, the field was still > displaying. But when I looked at the MARC view, it was not there. > We ran a complete re-index of the data, cleared the browser history, even > shut everything down and rebooted my laptop. But these records persist in > being found by searching something that isn't there. And displaying > something that isn't there. > > > I have found a way to force this behaviour to stop. If I open the record > for editing, and then close it again (without touching anything), the ghost > field stops haunting the record. It looks and behaves in searches as it > should. > > Any ideas why this is happening, and more importantly how to fix it? > Or have I dug up another bug? > > > (for the superstitious among you, I was working on these batch > modifications on October 31st). > -- > 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 <+44%2020%207485%202206> (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) > ββ > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
