I can't remember if this has been covered before: Can the Koha opac support 'AND' searches? A lot of us here are very attached to our 'Advanced Search' page, and I think we'd like to be able to duplicate most or all of its functionality in our Koha installation: http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/advanced.html Another thing I've been thinking about is the setting in the Koha opac search for 'normal' or 'exact' searching. Our system has a couple of other options, including 'phrase' and 'browse': http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/title.html Keyword searches have the disadvantage of returning a lot more hits than you want. I like 'browse' because it allows you to see a list of items beginning with a search string. Does Koha or can Koha be made to do these things? -- Owen
Koha can be made to do anything, of course. :) I started work on a search module that handles arbitrary boolean logic searches of the type you are looking for, so it is certainly possible. The search interface in Koha is in dire need of rewriting. We do seem to be generating more lists of things to do than anything else lately, but do we have a spot on the wiki for search interface wishlist ideas? Steve. On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Owen Leonard wrote:
I can't remember if this has been covered before: Can the Koha opac support 'AND' searches? A lot of us here are very attached to our 'Advanced Search' page, and I think we'd like to be able to duplicate most or all of its functionality in our Koha installation:
http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/advanced.html
Another thing I've been thinking about is the setting in the Koha opac search for 'normal' or 'exact' searching. Our system has a couple of other options, including 'phrase' and 'browse':
http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us/title.html
Keyword searches have the disadvantage of returning a lot more hits than you want. I like 'browse' because it allows you to see a list of items beginning with a search string.
Does Koha or can Koha be made to do these things?
-- Owen _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Owen Leonard wrote:
I can't remember if this has been covered before: Can the Koha opac support 'AND' searches? A lot of us here are very attached to our 'Advanced Search' page, and I think we'd like to be able to duplicate most or all of its functionality in our Koha installation:
Hi, Owen, In the TODAY-coming version 1.9.0, there is a 1st draft of the future MARC search. You can do AND, OR, NOT with =, >, <, >=, <=, starts, and contain searches. I've put only 3 differents lines in my code, but it should be upgraded to 5 or more (modify template, it should work) This search is only in librarian interface (clic on "catalogue search" on main menu") In the 1.9.1 version, i'll add a field in MARC parameter table. This field will be filled to say if the MARC field is "opac-visible" or "opac-hidden". As a result, it will be really close from your advanced search :
-- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)
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