[Koha] Do you like the way Koha is sorting facets and facets results ?

[Mathieu Saby]

Ok, I understand.
But as since bug 
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3154 we can 
choose the number of records used to build facets (pref 
maxRecordsForFacets), maybe for some (not all...) libraries it could be 
good to sort facets results by decreasing occurences order. Would you 
agree a syspref for that ?

Regarding the facets themselves (not the results), I think they are 
sorted according to decreasing occurences order. That's why they are not 
always in the same order. It sounds strange for me.
C4/Search.pm
 515                 for my $link_value (
 516                     sort { $facets_counter->{$b} <=> 
$facets_counter->{$a} }
 517                         keys %$facets_counter )

Mathieu Saby



Nicole Engard a écrit :
> Facets used to be sorted on popularity, but that was confusing people 
> because the numbers weren't showing. I did some Amazon and Kohls 
> shopping this weekend and the facets were sorted alphabetically when 
> it came to things like brands.  The problem is that Koha doesn't use 
> all pages of results to figure out the facets and popular sites do! So 
> if we only use the first page of the results we can't show true 
> popularity and so I think that's why it was changed to alphabetical a 
> while back.
>
> Nicole
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Mathieu Saby 
> <mathieu.saby at univ-rennes2.fr <mailto:mathieu.saby at univ-rennes2.fr>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hello
>     Could some librairians and vendors tell me if they like the way
>     Koha is sorting facets and facets results, on a UX point of view ?
>
>     Currently,
>     - Results for each facets are sorted alphabeticly.
>     - I can't explain the way factets (Authors, Title, Topics...) are
>     sorted, maybe by popularity, but it is not always the same,
>     depending of the request !
>
>     If we look at other catalogues, or non library websites
>     (Amazon...), we don't see the same behavior.
>     - Facets sorting does not change in the same catalogue
>     - Facets results are sorted according to popularity (decrescent
>     occurences), or sometime in a predefined order, sometime both, but
>     never alphabeticly.
>     (in amazon.com <http://amazon.com> , Author and Book series are
>     sorted according to popularity order, but Departement and Format
>     facets in a predefined order. cf.
>     http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=game
>     <http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=game>
>     in worldcat, Content and Public in a predefined order, and the
>     others by popularity :
>     http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=proust
>     <http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=proust> )
>
>     If you agree, I can make a patch for sorting facets results by
>     popularity (easy to do) and sorting facets according to a defined
>     order (more complicated for me but I will try...).
>
>     Regards,
>     M. Saby
>     Rennes 2 University
>
>
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