[Koha] Improving the advanced search form

[yves.tomic]

Hello,

To limit languages to ones, you can use the OPAC prefs and especially 
the field opacuserjs. Using JQUERY, you can remove some languages.

By exemple :
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:rum]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:ara]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:bul]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:chi]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:cze]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:dan]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:dut]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:gre]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:heb]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:hin]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:hun]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:ind]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:jpn]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:kor]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:lat]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:nob]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:nno]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:per]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:pol]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:por]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:swe]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:tha]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:tur]').remove();
$('#langfilter option[value=ln,rtrn:ukr]').remove();
}

Best regards,
Yves Tomic
Université Paris Sud



Gay Richards a écrit :
> Agree advanced search could and should be improved, but don't like example suggested.
>
> I generallly like the "look: of the Koha advanced search page. The problem (apart from any accessibility issues) is that some functions don't work as one might expect - as outlined below. Also:
>
> We would like to turn off or limit languages to onees that are actually available in our catalog.
>
> The Search for additional content types is really misleading as it relies on codes from marc field 008 which may or may not have been used.
> I'm sure I have other issues with this screen and I would be keen to discuss any improvements further. We support anything that makes it more accessible too.  Gay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Chris Cormack
> Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2012 3:03 p.m.
> To: Srikanth Dhondi
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Improving the advanced search form
>
> On 25 October 2012 14:55, Srikanth Dhondi <srikanth at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am currently working on improving accessibility of koha opac site 
>> with our accessibility expert.
>> One of the things we noticed is that the advanced search option is not 
>> only confusing for blind users but also even for normal users.
>>
>> I have noticed the following issues with it:
>>
>> 1) By default the Fewer Options option is selected, which is not 
>> obvious to the normal users until they click on More Options.
>>
>> 2) The layout could be a lot better, in particular the Fewer Options 
>> search form is quite abstract in what it does.
>>
>> For example, the default boolean operator is AND which is not obvious 
>> to even normal user.
>>
>> In my opinion, layout similar to the one 
>> http://kea.massey.ac.nz/search/X, is better.
>>
>>     
> I'm going to disagree and say that site is horrid :)
>
> Maybe others will have different opinions though.
>
> Chris
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