[Koha] Sorting search results - Zebra

[Katrin]

Hi Sally and others,

I'd also be interested in the answer to this question - it seems it's 
not always the same in our installations and I was wondering where in 
the code this happens and how it could be changed.

Katrin


On 05.07.2017 15:41, HEALEY, Sally wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using Koha 16.11, and Zebra.
>
> We have individual records for different item types - e.g. hardback, paperback, DVD, large print, audiobook etc.  A search will return many records with equal ranking, which is correct, as they are all the same title.
>
> When records are ranked equally, they are then sorted by bibilonumber in descending order, with the highest biblionumber (newest) displaying in the results first.  For example:
>
> Result	Title	Type	Copies	Rank	Biblionumber
> 1	ABC	DVD	4	90%	44567
> 2	ABC	LP	2	90%	34689
> 3	ABC	PBK	63	90%	23456
> 4	ABC	HBK	80	90%	12345
> 5	CDE	DVD	11	64%	44235
> 6	CDE	HBK	43	64%	22132
>
> We would like equally ranked records to be sorted by biblionumber ascending, so the oldest items are shown first.  This means our hardback/paperbacks would sit at the top of the search results, as these are purchased before multimedia and large print.
>
> Result	Title	Type	Copies	Rank	Biblionumber
> 1	ABC	HBK	80	90%	12345
> 2	ABC	PBK	63	90%	23456
> 3	ABC	LP	2	90%	34689
> 4	ABC	DVD	4	90%	44567
> 5	CDE	HBK	43	64%	22132
> 6	CDE	DVD	11	64%	44235
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to achieve this, and how to do so?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sally
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