DSpace 7.6 Browse By author filter not working

[Adam Doan]

Hi all,

On our DSpace 7 installation, we're running into an issue where the author name filter on the browse by author isn't working properly. When you use the text field to filter by an author name the result of the query just shows up as the last name of the author all in lowercase. 

Clicking any of the author result links always returns an empty results list: "No items to show".

In contrast to this, on the demo site, filtering by typing in the author gives full author names as the result links and clicking these takes you to a list of the items as you would expect:

This seems like an indexing issue to me. Our author metadata is stored in dc.contributor.author. Perhaps something to do with the webui.browse.index configuration? We're just using what comes default in dspace.cfg:

webui.browse.index.1 = dateissued:item:dateissued

webui.browse.index.2 = author:metadata:dc.contributor.*\,dc.creator:text

webui.browse.index.3 = title:item:title

webui.browse.index.4 = subject:metadata:dc.subject.*:text

#webui.browse.index.5 = dateaccessioned:item:dateaccessioned

Rebuilding the discovery index with dspace index-discovery -b has not helped.

Any thoughts as to what might be going on?

Thanks so much,

-Adam

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Adam Doan | Analyst, Digital Strategy & Technology

McLaughlin Library | University of Guelph
50 Stone Road E | Guelph, ON | N1G 2W1
519-824-4120 Ext. 52974 | do...@uoguelph.ca

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[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Adam,

I suspect this is a bug we've fixed since the 7.6 release.  The demo.dspace.org site is running the absolute latest 7.x code, which means it includes a number of bug fixes we've applied since 7.6.  I'm having trouble finding the exact ticket that related to this, but I have a vague memory of this behavior.  It might be this bug https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/2159 (or some other similar one).

The good news is we are working on finishing up a 7.6.1 release which will provide bug fixes to 7.6 (and be an easier upgrade).  I expect that to be out in November.

Tim

[Adam Doan]

Wonderful, thanks for  the update, Tim!

-Adam

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Adam Doan | Analyst, Digital Strategy & Technology

McLaughlin Library | University of Guelph
50 Stone Road E | Guelph, ON | N1G 2W1
519-824-4120 Ext. 52974 | do...@uoguelph.ca

www.uoguelph.ca, www.lib.uoguelph.ca

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