[Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

[Saumendra Swain]

  Yes I totally Agree with Galen and Linda thats a beter option as you 
correctly point out the Use of Likes is much more in a needed senario.

Saumendra Swain
www.saumendra.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Culberson" <lculber at mdah.state.ms.us>
To: "Chris Nighswonger" <cnighswonger at foundations.edu>
Cc: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number


+1
I think the radio button would be a great idea. For us the  "search
patrons"   by cardnumber is problematic  unless the number is really
high.   I found in my testing, that even with names it would be
extremely helpful to have the ability to specify exact.

 From my very selfish perspective, the radio button would work better
than the the system preference, because with names there are indeed
times when the "like" works better and times when exact does.


On 4/6/2011 3:07 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com
> <mailto:gmc at esilibrary.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Owen Leonard wrote:
>      > Are you talking about circulation? If by "swiping" you mean
>      > "scanning," then of course that should work. That's what we do 
> every
>      > day. In circulation I don't find that entering "643" pulls up 
> "1643"
>      > at all.
>
>     Two different searches are being discussed:
>
>     [1] 'search patrons' - uses a "like" on the patron barcode, so a
>     search of "123" will pull up barcode 123, 6123, 12345, etc. Â This
>     applies whether the barcode was type or scanned.
>
>
> Perhaps a simple radio button setup with "exact" and "like" options in
> the patron search interface would allow both types of searches without
> the inconvenience of having to select one *or* the other via a syspref.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris

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Linda Culberson lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
Archives and Records Services Division
Ms. Dept. of Archives & History
P. O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone:  601/576-6873
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