Question on Patron Search
Hi All, I am a student at UBC in the LIS program and I'm doing an assignment related to Koha. I hope someone wouldn't mind answering my question as I searched through the documentation and mailing list archive but didn't find an answer to my question. I'm using the ByWater Solutions' Koha v3.03 test instance and was playing around with the Patron Search interface. I noticed in the documentation that the patron search is supposed to cover any part of a name and barcode number (ref: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x7264 using 3.2 since the 3.0 documentation didn't cover this topic), but I found that using e-mail worked too. So, I was wondering if there is a more complete list of which fields are searchable or if it's something that can be customized in the administrative panel that I missed. Any further information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Sincerely, Cynthia Ng MLIS Candidate, UBC School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS)
Cynthia, I actually thought it was only any part of the name or barcode, but I just tested on my install and found that email does in fact work. Can anyone else tell me what else is searchable by default? I'll update the manual with it all. Nicole On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Cynthia Ng <cynthia.s.ng@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I am a student at UBC in the LIS program and I'm doing an assignment related to Koha. I hope someone wouldn't mind answering my question as I searched through the documentation and mailing list archive but didn't find an answer to my question.
I'm using the ByWater Solutions' Koha v3.03 test instance and was playing around with the Patron Search interface. I noticed in the documentation that the patron search is supposed to cover any part of a name and barcode number (ref: http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x7264 using 3.2 since the 3.0 documentation didn't cover this topic), but I found that using e-mail worked too.
So, I was wondering if there is a more complete list of which fields are searchable or if it's something that can be customized in the administrative panel that I missed.
Any further information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
Sincerely, Cynthia Ng MLIS Candidate, UBC School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
On 13 March 2011 14:05, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Cynthia,
I actually thought it was only any part of the name or barcode, but I just tested on my install and found that email does in fact work. Can anyone else tell me what else is searchable by default? I'll update the manual with it all.
It uses the Search subroutine in C4::Members http://perldoc.koha-community.org/C4/Members.html#Search And by default it is searching on "firstname","surname", "email","othernames","cardnumber","userid" Hope this helps Chris
Thanks Chris! I'll update the manual accordingly. Nicole On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
On 13 March 2011 14:05, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Cynthia,
I actually thought it was only any part of the name or barcode, but I just tested on my install and found that email does in fact work. Can anyone else tell me what else is searchable by default? I'll update the manual with it all.
It uses the Search subroutine in C4::Members http://perldoc.koha-community.org/C4/Members.html#Search
And by default it is searching on "firstname","surname", "email","othernames","cardnumber","userid"
Hope this helps
Chris
participants (3)
-
Chris Cormack -
Cynthia Ng -
Nicole Engard