Re: [VuFind-Tech] No "use instead" links in alphabetic browse

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

Thanks for the fix -- I'll test this out tomorrow morning.

Regarding Eoghan's missing "use instead" entries, I can't help wondering if this has something to do with the Windows platform (and more specifically the compromises I made in adapting your shell scripts into batch files).  I'm not going to have access to my Windows box until Thursday, but if this isn't resolved by then, I'll take a deeper look.  In the meantime, it might be helpful to know where in the process the "use for" headings are set up in the first place -- perhaps that will help pinpoint some platform-related difference.

- Demian
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From: Mark Triggs [mt...@nl...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:48 PM
To: Demian Katz
Cc: vuf...@li...
Subject: Re: [VuFind-Tech] No "use instead" links in alphabetic browse

Argh!  You're exactly right: I had a silly off-by-one in the browse
indexing code that would cause it to skip the very first heading in the
browse field (which was "Dublin Society, Royal") in this case.

I haven't pushed anything back to SVN yet, but if you replace
import/browse-indexing.jar with:

  http://www-test.nla.gov.au/~mtriggs/browse-indexing.jar

and try again, I think that will fix it.

Back to the original report, Eoghan: are you still not getting any "Use
instead" entries at all?  If that's still not working it's probably a
separate issue (almost certainly my fault too ;)  Do you see any errors
when importing your authority data?  As I said before, I just had to
change the authority import properties to use the 001 to get your sample
file loaded in...

Sorry for the trouble!

Mark


Demian Katz <dem...@vi...> writes:

> The problem is that there are two records -- one for "Dublin Society"
> with a "see also," and one for "Dublin Society, Royal" with a "use
> instead."  We're seeing the "Dublin Society" but not "Dublin Society,
> Royal."  This would make sense if your theory about headings not found
> in the index were correct...  but then how do you explain this one?
>
>   <lst>
>       <int name="count">0</int>
>       <arr name="useInstead">
>        <str>Royal Dublin Society</str>
>       </arr>
>       <arr name="ids"/>
>       <arr name="seeAlso"/>
>       <str name="note"/>
>
>       <str name="heading">RDS</str>
>   </lst>
>
> That's got a count of 0 and a "use instead" and it's showing up!
>
> Of course, I would argue that for "use instead" references, you do
> want to show them if the heading is not in the index -- as long as the
> "use instead" term is found.  I think having "RDS" here is completely
> appropriate...  but where is "Dublin Society, Royal"?  Mysterious!
>
> In any case, thanks for the detailed explanations, as always!

--
Mark Triggs
Systems Administrator
Business Systems Support, The National Library of Australia
<mt...@nl...>