[Koha-devel] Catalog Items Don't Appear in OPAC Search

[Michael Hafen]

Updating zebra is handled by a separate process.  There is a script to
handle it, `bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -z -b -a`.  This should
be put in a cronjob script, such as bin/cronjobs/crontab.example

Good luck.

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 15:40 -0700, Richard Forristall wrote:
> Good day everyone,
>  
> Our librarian is having trouble with the OPAC search.  When a student
> searches for books that we know are in the database, some will not
> appear in the results list.  Yet, if we go into the staff client and
> do a checkout, we can find the catalog item.
>  
> At first thought, it would seem the catalog item is not getting into
> the zebra index so the search doesn't find it.
>  
> Does Koha automatically do a zebra index when catalog items are added?
> Is there a setting in the Koha admin that has to be set?
>  
> In OPAC, when we search for a book we don't see it in the results
> list.
>  
>  
> In staff client:
> When we want to check out the book (the library uses a barcode scanner
> to find the book):
> The book is then found and we can check it out.
>  
> The impact is the student can't find some books for the work they need
> to complete. So only if a student happens to see the book on the shelf
> can he/she check it out.
>  
> Thanks in advance for any/all assistance.
>  
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Rick
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