Mantid Catalog search does not produce the same results as Journal viewer search and some Mantid searches are failing.

[Alex Buts]

ISIS instrument scientists use ​journal viewer to find information on their runs. I observed that the search results returned from the journal viewer are different from the results which can be found using Mantid's ICAT GUI for searching.

Example one

Searching on journal viewer

1. Go to the ​journal viewer website.
2. Click HTML for the MARI instrument (or click ​https://data.isis.rl.ac.uk/journals/ndxmari/journal_main.html)
3. From the from cycle(s) drop-menu select Current.
4. From the sorted by drop-menu select RB number and Ascending from the adjacent drop-menu.
5. Click the Refresh button.

You should now observe that there are nine proposals with the following IDs:

1010514;
1310471;
1320246;
1320539;
1410203;
1410359;
1410388;
1410550;
1410559;

Searching on ICAT

1. Open the ICAT GUI within Mantid.
2. Enter a start-date of 11/02/2014 and end-date of 04/04/2014 (according to the ​last cycle dates)
3. Click Search and observe that zero results are returned.
4. Perform the same searches on the ​ICAT web interface (TOPCAT)

Example two

1. Log into the Catalog in Mantid.
2. Enter 19247-19295 in the Run range field.
3. Click Search. 0 investigations are returned.

When performing the search on the journal viewer above the run range entered in the search relate to those specific runs.

Conclusion

The results that I get from Mantid are different from the data journal, which will prevent certain users from using ICAT within Mantid. This looks to be an ICAT specific issue, and I think may be related to permissions.

Other minor issues

1. Searching by cycle is a very convenient option that scientists would like.
2. Some investigations do not have run numbers in ICAT, but they do on the data journal.
3. There are occasions when a name appears in the run-range column rather than a run-range.

[Nick Draper]

Moved to the backlog at the code freeze of R3.3

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​10226