[Koha-devel] DOM, id:x, reindexing (bug8665?)

[Paul]

At 04:22 PM 10/17/2012 -0400, it was written:
>Paul,
>Isn't this the problem you were trying to solve to begin with?

Progress! Thanks all around. After a mini-marathon our cataloguers have 
edited *all* duplicate 001 fields.

Zebra -z doesn't keep up with 001, so for our plug-in to work I had to CRON 
a complete re-catalogue every couple of minutes, and if the ladies went too 
fast they created brand-new duplicates -- which has highlighted another 
"change" to zebra. Deleting a biblio, after deleting any items attached, 
also requires a complete re-index (else staff page still lists it and OPAC 
produces a 404.)

Is this expected behaviour? I don't remember this in 3.6.1, but no longer 
have a working copy of that version.

So now the ladies are working on 'authorities', starting with PERSO_NAME, 
which appear (thanks to the above) to be functional for those that were 
imported (mysql restore) from 3.6.1, but non-functional for new records 
(those entered directly into 3.8.4/5 -- this could well be that for the 
last six weeks the "authority search" while cataloguing a 100$a (and 700, 
64x, etc) did not function, it now does.)

I've had a look at the command line ./merge_authority.pl but it looks as 
though -f -t is intrinsically slower than using the staff interface -- plus 
I'd have to do it myself, our ladies do not use the CLI. Is there something 
I'm missing with that (or another) perl script that could actually find 
potential unlinked 100$a fields and "automate" merging to some extent?

But I'm also confused that the manual and preference page seem to differ a 
little over '/misc/migration_tools/merge_authorities.pl' and 
'/bin/migration_tools/merge_authority.pl -- are these the same script? And 
while a cron job is not required if 'dontmerge' is set to "Do", could it be 
helpful in 3.8.5 with authority preferences set (I think the closest to 
3.6.1) to:

AutoCreateAuthorities   'Generate'
BiblioAddsAuthorities   'Allow'
dontmerge       'Do'
MARCAuthorityControlField008    {default}
UseAuthoritiesForTracings       'Don't use'
Linker
CatalogModuleRelink     'Do'
LinkerKeepStale         'Do'
LinkerModule    {default}
LinkerOptions   {blank}
LinkerRelink    'Do'

Many thanks for all your assistance so far; and best regards.

Paul