[Koha] Do you like the way Koha is sorting facets and facets results ?

[Stefano Bargioni]

Looking at the Perl script that generates Koha facets, in my opinion they are not good and... cannot be better :-)
I found a very good solution in the Solr demo of BibLibre. Try
http://catalogue.solr-demo.biblibre.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=*%3A*&filters=
that retrieves all records in the catalog.
I think that facets cannot be generated but the indexer itself. Don't know if Zebra can generate them. Hope yopu find a solution.
Stefano

> Hello
> Could some librairians and vendors tell me if they like the way Koha is 
> sorting facets and facets results, on a UX point of view ?
> 
> Currently,
> - Results for each facets are sorted alphabeticly.
> - I can't explain the way factets (Authors, Title, Topics...) are 
> sorted, maybe by popularity, but it is not always the same, depending of 
> the request !
> 
> If we look at other catalogues, or non library websites (Amazon...), we 
> don't see the same behavior.
> - Facets sorting does not change in the same catalogue
> - Facets results are sorted according to popularity (decrescent 
> occurences), or sometime in a predefined order, sometime both, but never 
> alphabeticly.
> (in amazon.com , Author and Book series are sorted according to 
> popularity order, but Departement and Format facets in a predefined 
> order. cf. 
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=game
> in worldcat, Content and Public in a predefined order, and the others 
> by popularity : 
> http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=proust )
> 
> If you agree, I can make a patch for sorting facets results by 
> popularity (easy to do) and sorting facets according to a defined order 
> (more complicated for me but I will try...).
> 
> Regards,
> M. Saby
> Rennes 2 University