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    New courses duplicated in CourseNo. Browse list; omitted from other Browse index

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 19.01

    Description:
    Every new course we add ends up displaying twice in the OPAC (using U-COURSE_RESERVES).

    But only the course number gets indexed - not the instructor, or course name, or dept. Things aren't indexing in the GUI either.

    An example of an instructor who is being omitted is "Atkins".

    Resolution:
    Though the filing text of the two Z01's which are appearing in the Course Number ("CNS") Browse index are the same, there's a difference in the z01_display_text and the z01_normalized_text which has caused a second z01 to be created. In the first case, the subfield codes are being included, and in the second, not. What is included in the z01_display_text and the z01_normalized_text is controlled by the xxx30 tab_filing. It seems there must have been a change to this at some point....

    Running p_manage_02 corrected this problem.

    The non-inclusion of Atkins as an instructor (the INS index) is similar....

    It is being filed under "1 Atkins":

    02 z01_rec_key \
    03 acc_code ..............INS
    03 alpha .................L
    03 filing_text ...........1 ATKINS
    03 filing_sequence .......97627
    02 z01_acc_sequence ........000397627
    ...
    02 z01_normalized_text .....$$-1$$-atkins
    02 z01_display_text ........$$81$$aAtkins

    The "1" is coming from the $$8 subfield.

    The usm30 tab11_acc is not specifically *excluding* the $$8, but it is *including* only one specific subfield in each case:

    CNO-0 CNO a
    CNO-0 COU b
    CNO-2 COUIN a
    <etc.>

    Updating the tab11_acc and re-running p_manage_02 corrected this problem also.


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013
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