Hi, On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Marty <ontariowolf64@yahoo.com> wrote:
This might just have to do with the way Koha operates, but we have a book here with the very (annoyingly?) short title "Lit!" (by Tony Reinke, ISBN9781433522260 if you are interested)
If we search for "Lit" it will return all results wherever "Lit" is used, like Literature, little children etc. "Lit!" is also in that list.
If we search for "Lit!" however, we get no results found.
We are getting either too many results (everything including lit somewhere) or none at all. It is in the system, but just hard to find.
Any ideas how to solve it or get around it?
One thing to try would be adjusting several system preferences related to Zebra searching: QueryWeightFields - turn ON for relevancy ranking, in particular to rank hits in the title field more highly QueryFuzzy - turn OFF to disable fuzzy queries, which will make search results more precise at the cost of making it unforgiving of typos in search strings QueryAutoTruncate - turn OFF to have searches not left-truncate; tradeoff is that users would have to manually append an asterisk to truncate. For example, they would have to enter "car*" to get results for both "car" and "cars". Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org