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#From my tests, I think that the "Subject" search will not return a result unless you type in a known subject name. If that is correct then it is (IMHO) not very useful for casual users (as they would not know what subject names are valid)? If this is correct, then mabe the web interface fo "subject" search should change - maybe a select list such as currently done for "Class" search? Or am I mising something!? ;^) R.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:44:51AM +1000, Roger Buck said:
From my tests, I think that the "Subject" search will not return a result unless you type in a known subject name. If that is correct then it is (IMHO) not very useful for casual users (as they would not know what subject names are valid)?
If this is correct, then mabe the web interface fo "subject" search should change - maybe a select list such as currently done for "Class" search?
Or am I mising something!? ;^)
Hi Roger I think youve spotted a bug, something in the recent past that has been changed must have broken this. Yep, it appears to be broken on hlt.katipo.co.nz .. but the live system running at HLT is working. So ill go see whats broken in the cvs version and fix it. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
Chris Cormack wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:44:51AM +1000, Roger Buck said:
From my tests, I think that the "Subject" search will not return a result unless you type in a known subject name. If that is correct then it is (IMHO) not very useful for casual users (as they would not know what subject names are valid)?
If this is correct, then mabe the web interface fo "subject" search should change - maybe a select list such as currently done for "Class" search?
Or am I mising something!? ;^)
Hi Roger
I think youve spotted a bug, something in the recent past that has been changed must have broken this.
Yep, it appears to be broken on hlt.katipo.co.nz .. but the live system running at HLT is working. So ill go see whats broken in the cvs version and fix it.
Well, Rachel had just convinced me that this was due to a limitation of my test system - I must say she had me convinced... She's now a candidate for a job with Microsoft perhaps <big grin> R.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:10:15AM +1000, Roger Buck said:
Yep, it appears to be broken on hlt.katipo.co.nz .. but the live system running at HLT is working. So ill go see whats broken in the cvs version and fix it.
Well, Rachel had just convinced me that this was due to a limitation of my test system - I must say she had me convinced... She's now a candidate for a job with Microsoft perhaps <big grin>
I just checked out the latest version from the stable branch of the CVS and the subject search on hlt.katipo.co.nz is working fine then. So it looks like a bug thats already been fixed, the best kind :) So if you checkout the latest version of C4::Search you should be good to go. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
Sir, I have cofigured httpd.conf looking at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaHints as you told but what directory should i set for SetEnv PERL5LIB ? Thanking you. Md Aftabuddin
"Md. Aftabuddin" wrote:
Sir, I have cofigured httpd.conf looking at http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=KohaHints as you told but what directory should i set for SetEnv PERL5LIB ?
If you have placed C4 folder anywhere in the perl path then you don't need to use SetEnv. But, if C4 is not in the perl path, then SetEnv PERL5LIB should point to the parent directory where you have copied your koha C4 folder. For example, say you have copied the C4 folder to /var/www/cgi-bin/koha/C4 then your httpd.conf file would have something like this: SetEnv PERL5LIB "/var/www/cgi-bin/koha" Or, if you copy C4 directory to: /usr/local/kali/C4 then you would enter something like this in httpd.conf file: SetEnv PERL5LIB "/usr/local/kali" Hope that helps ;^) R.
HI
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:44:51AM +1000, Roger Buck said:
From my tests, I think that the "Subject" search will not return a result unless you type in a known subject name. If that is correct then it is (IMHO) not very useful for casual users (as they would not know what subject names are valid)?
Actually that is correct too - having tried to search for something that it was highly unlikely that HLT has as a subject you get no results. So perhaps at this point we need an error message that has an option to "Click for subject lists" - so that on smaller systems you get to see the list, but on bigger ones you're not waiting an hour for it?
If this is correct, then mabe the web interface fo "subject" search should change - maybe a select list such as currently done for "Class" search?
However my explanation of how it works and why you don't want a drop down list still stands :-)
I think youve spotted a bug, something in the recent past that has been changed must have broken this.
I don't think this is a bug - as in I don't recall us having anything that happened when you didn't find a subject?
Yep, it appears to be broken on hlt.katipo.co.nz .. but the live system running at HLT is working. So ill go see whats broken in the cvs version and fix it.
Well, Rachel had just convinced me that this was due to a limitation of my test system - I must say she had me convinced... She's now a candidate for a job with Microsoft perhaps <big grin>
It's a feature I tell you :-) Cheers R _____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:44:51AM +1000, Roger Buck said:
From my tests, I think that the "Subject" search will not return a result unless you type in a known subject name. If that is correct then it is (IMHO) not very useful for casual users (as they would not know what subject names are valid)?
Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
Actually that is correct too - having tried to search for something that it was highly unlikely that HLT has as a subject you get no results. So perhaps at this point we need an error message that has an option to "Click for subject lists" - so that on smaller systems you get to see the list, but on bigger ones you're not waiting an hour for it?
Rachel Hamilton-Williams wrote:
It's a feature I tell you :-)
OK, I believe you... and it makes sense too (wow!).... but (as you have said), it doesn't work too well for smaller catalogues - We have over 250 "subjects" on our test server - all within one specialised catalogue (teaching resources). We'd get no better than 50% success rate - even though we'd be more familiar with the subject content than many of the users would be. So the question arises as to whether we can improve that. So my first question: If I understand correctly, then with the current search method, the "subject" entries <bibliosubject.subject> are treated as meta-data; lists of keywords - they do not need to be be human readable? Is that correct understanding so far...? R.
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