[Koha] Koha Digest, Vol 125, Issue 27

[angelo.pugliese at yahoo.com]

Re: Multiple Choice in Language Selection
First time I am replying to a post 
in this Koha list and 
I don't know exactly if this is the right way, 
by just replying to the list email message... 
If ok, kindly let me know... 
if not, kindly instruct accordingly. 
Thank you.

Replying to Chris: 
Thank you dear Chris, 
for the time you took to analyze the issue.The next question arises, then:
is ElasticSearch probably going to be adopted by Koha?
If yes, which is its probable timeframe?
If not... bad luck for my original question, 
I guess... :)

Angelo Pugliese
Headlibrarian
BRC Library - Kolkata
http://library.brcindia.com


    On Wednesday, 16 March 2016, 4:30, 
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  2. Re: Multiple Choice in Language Selection (Chris Cormack)

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:30:44 +1300
From: Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz>
To: angelo.pugliese at yahoo.com
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Multiple Choice in Language Selection
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On 13 March 2016 at 22:56,  <angelo.pugliese at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Multiple Choice in Language Selection
>
> I suggest that it could serve much better the Koha users
> if the Language selection, in the Adv. Search in Koha Opac,
> could be a Multiple Choice, instead as the Single Choice one,
> which now we have there, see:
> http://library.brcindia.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl ,
>
> It would be much better if the Opac users
> could be able to multi-select more than one language,
> by cntrl-clicking on them, etc.
>
> The point is that an 'advanced' search
> may naturally include
> two or few specific languages,
> like, for ex., if I want to find
> some texts in original Indic languages
> by classical Indian authors,
> I will NOT search for 'No limit' (= too many results)
> nor for Bengali, only (= too less results),
> but I would prefere to include in my search
>  both Samskrit and Bengali,
> since French and Italian, obviously,
> will not give me many relevant results.
>
> It should not be, afaik, really a big coding thing,
>  (unless this breaks the CSS of the Koha theme)...
> something that a good Koha programmer
> can do quite easily...:)

To change the HTML is easy, you are right.
Unfortunately there is a lot more to it than that. You would have to change
the underlying code that performs the search to be able to handle
searching on 2 languages.

This would probably be easier with ElasticSearch than Zebra, but that is
not in a stable release yet.
Either way, it would be days not hours of work.

Chris

> I suggest the above small change to the code
> because it seems to be of a very good use
> for all Koha users and will make the search tool
> much more user-friendly for all... :)
>
> Thank you for considering it... :)