[Koha] Searching Tips in the Manual

[Ian Walls]

David,


I'm planning on writing up a blog post explaining relevancy ranking in Koha
(I finally found the source code, so it's a matter of translating it into
Human), but I'm not sure I'll get to it before January.  If anyone else
wants to take a crack at it, be my guest.  The _build_weighted_query
subroutine starts on C4/Search.pm line 757 in current master.

Reviewing the code, it's not actually that complex... maybe I could do this
article sooner than I thought...


-Ian

2011/12/21 Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library <David.W.Hartman at disney.com>

> How does Koha determine relevance in search results?  Can we adjust this?
> Ie rank word hits  in title higher value than word hits elsewhere.  I've
> typed in a few  title search words and was surprised at my results.
>
> Sent from my iPhone! Pardon typos, etc.
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:01 AM, "Nicole Engard" <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I got a question recently about what fields were searched for the language
> filter on the advanced search and I was going to add the answer to the
> manual only to find that none of the fields are defined:
> http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/searchguide.html#searchguide-advanced
>
> Do we know if there is documentation on this in zebra anywhere? Or does
> anyone know (in a way that's quick and easy to answer) enough to tell me so
> I can put something in the manual?
>
> The searching guide that is in there was written for 3.0 and I honestly
> never changed it because there is way too much about the search engine I
> don't know and didn't know how to research.
>
> Anyway, if you have some tips, places I should look, or information you
> want to share please do!  You can just reply to all here or I also welcome
> patches to the manual - but if you'd rather write it in a document or text
> file go right ahead. I will credit you for the parts you write of course!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nicole
>
> PS. I'm looking for tips that will help the users like the fact that the
> language index populates from 008 (chars 35-37), and 041adej
>
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