Call number / title index

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 18.01

Description:
Our call number / title index is not alphabetizing correctly. For example, a search of "News WWW" in a call number search brings back the following result:

1 NEWS WWW --- Times-Union.
1 NEWS WWW --- colored American
1 NEWS WWW --- Washington post.
1 NEWS WWW --- Los Angeles times.
1 NEWS WWW --- Boston globe.
1 NEWS WWW --- Frankfurter Allgemeine.

Resolution:
We see in tab00.eng that the call#/title index is the ACC index CTL:

H CTL ACC 27 00 00 UA Call number/Title


and in tab11_acc that it is indexing a virtual field "CALLC":

CALLC CTL atbcnp

and that the CALLC field is generated by expand_join (using tab_expand_join).


Using util f/4 for the alb01 z01:

Enter start point (CCCCCATTTTTTTT):
CTL Lnews www

we see that all of these "NEWS WWW" headings have the same z01_filing_text; the subfield $$t is omitted:

filing_text ...........news www 0

That's because the CTL index is using tab_filing routine 27 and routine 27 has this line:

27 get_subfields a

This means that only subfield a will be included in the filing text.

If you want the $$t to be included, you need to change this to

27 get_subfields at

(or omit the "get_subfields" line).

To correct this you can:

1. update tab_filing
2. restart ue_01 and the pc_server
3. send some records to the server to confirm that they get the correct CTL index entry
4. do a search to retrieve the record numbers of all the relevant doc records
5. use the set created in step 1 as input to p_manage_40 (which will generate a z07 indexing request for each record).

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013