Not an immediate solution, but we do have an enhancement in testing right now that has some advanced patron searching possibilities including truncation, searching by partial phone/email, and SQL searching. You would then be able to search HEATH, HEA* etc. It's tied to some other features that are still being developed, but we hope to get the group out soon. Jane Wagner Library Systems Analyst PTFS Inc. Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner@ptfs.com <mailto:jwagner@ptfs.com> From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Sharon Moreland Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:28 AM To: Nicole Engard Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz; Mickey Coalwell Subject: Re: [Koha] Finding a patron name in lookup Hi Nicole, The issue is that we have 197 Heathers in the catalog, so finding Heather Heath is proving difficult - we have problems with Jones and Smiths, as well. The only helpful feature I've discovered is that we can sort by Branch and then go to the last page of the results to get to the library in question. Clunky. Do any qualifiers work in the patron search box? Sharon NExpress On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Nicole Engard <nicole.engard@liblime.com> wrote: Mickey, does searching for her full name not work? A full name search should find her - or a search by barcode. I'm confused as to why that isn't working. What results are they getting? --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Mickey Coalwell<mcoalwell@nekls.org> wrote:
Any thoughts/tips/strategies for finding a patron named HEATHER HEATH (or any similarly structured name) in Koha's patron lookup quickly and efficiently? I'm confounded. This is an actual patron name, and her home library called us to say that they could not find her via name lookup. Interesting problem.
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