[Koha] searching subjects in PAC

[Nicole Engard]

Kathy is there a bug number at bugs.koha.org?  If so, what is it? I
will take a look and see if I have enough skills to fix it.

Nicole

2010/1/12 Kathy Rippel <kdr at ckls.org>:
> The is a problem that I have reported several times. Sometimes a fix has
> been made, but it appears there needs to be a more lasting one.
>
> Instead of pointing at the "AN" in the search these hot links need to point
> at the actual subject headings themselves because not all subjects are
> included in the "authorities".
>
> That's the first wish list for this. Actually all of the authority area
> needs some work, but that is another issue...
>
> Kathy
>
> At 10:57 AM 1/12/2010, Rachel Hollis wrote:
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> Greetings friends, I believe that I need to change something for the users
> of our PAC and I can’t believe that I have just noticed this issue.
>
> When our users click a subject heading, they receive a “No results match
> your search for ‘an:2812’ in CASI Libraries Catalog” screen even when we
> have more than the one item with the subject heading. The “an” with the
> number part of the message indicates to me that the authority files are
> being used. Assuming that, under Administration > Systems Preferences >
> Authorities the following selections have been made:
> authoritysep set to --
> BiblioAddsAuthorities set to ON
> dontmerge set to ON
>
> Using the authority files while cataloging I have noticed that we have
> multiple headings; for the search above there are two headings in the
> authorities database, one with control number 2812 and one with 3488.
>
> What can I do to allow our PAC users to click on heading and find the other
> titles with the same heading? Do I need to ask our system administrator to
> enable the merge_authorities.pl cron job? We are using Koha 3.01.
>
> Rachel Hollis, librarian
> Stevens-Henager College, Boise Idaho Campus
>
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