On 13 March 2016 at 22:56, <angelo.pugliese@yahoo.com> wrote:
Multiple Choice in Language Selection
I suggest that it could serve much better the Koha users if the Language selection, in the Adv. Search in Koha Opac, could be a Multiple Choice, instead as the Single Choice one, which now we have there, see: http://library.brcindia.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl ,
It would be much better if the Opac users could be able to multi-select more than one language, by cntrl-clicking on them, etc.
The point is that an 'advanced' search may naturally include two or few specific languages, like, for ex., if I want to find some texts in original Indic languages by classical Indian authors, I will NOT search for 'No limit' (= too many results) nor for Bengali, only (= too less results), but I would prefere to include in my search both Samskrit and Bengali, since French and Italian, obviously, will not give me many relevant results.
It should not be, afaik, really a big coding thing, (unless this breaks the CSS of the Koha theme)... something that a good Koha programmer can do quite easily...:)
To change the HTML is easy, you are right. Unfortunately there is a lot more to it than that. You would have to change the underlying code that performs the search to be able to handle searching on 2 languages. This would probably be easier with ElasticSearch than Zebra, but that is not in a stable release yet. Either way, it would be days not hours of work. Chris
I suggest the above small change to the code because it seems to be of a very good use for all Koha users and will make the search tool much more user-friendly for all... :)
Thank you for considering it... :) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha