[Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number

[Linda Culberson]

+1
I think the radio button would be a great idea. For us the  "search 
patrons"   by cardnumber is problematic  unless the number is really 
high.   I found in my testing, that even with names it would be 
extremely helpful to have the ability to specify exact.

 From my very selfish perspective, the radio button would work better 
than the the system preference, because with names there are indeed 
times when the "like" works better and times when exact does.


On 4/6/2011 3:07 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com
> <mailto:gmc at esilibrary.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Owen Leonard wrote:
>      > Are you talking about circulation? If by "swiping" you mean
>      > "scanning," then of course that should work. That's what we do every
>      > day. In circulation I don't find that entering "643" pulls up "1643"
>      > at all.
>
>     Two different searches are being discussed:
>
>     [1] 'search patrons' - uses a "like" on the patron barcode, so a
>     search of "123" will pull up barcode 123, 6123, 12345, etc. Â This
>     applies whether the barcode was type or scanned.
>
>
> Perhaps a simple radio button setup with "exact" and "like" options in
> the patron search interface would allow both types of searches without
> the inconvenience of having to select one *or* the other via a syspref.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris

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Linda Culberson			lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
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