[Koha] Improving the advanced search form

[Mathieu Saby]

Hello
We too want to turn off or limit languages to ones that are actually 
available in our catalog.
It's not easy but possible : you need to modify 3 tables in the MySQL 
database :
- language_descriptions
- language_rfc4646_to_iso639
- language_subtag_registry

We are going to do this in my library (not done yet...).

Regards
Mathieu Saby
Rennes 2 University



Gay Richards a écrit :
> Agree advanced search could and should be improved, but don't like example suggested.
>
> I generallly like the "look: of the Koha advanced search page. The problem (apart from any accessibility issues) is that some functions don't work as one might expect - as outlined below. Also:
>
> We would like to turn off or limit languages to onees that are actually available in our catalog.
>
> The Search for additional content types is really misleading as it relies on codes from marc field 008 which may or may not have been used.
> I'm sure I have other issues with this screen and I would be keen to discuss any improvements further. We support anything that makes it more accessible too.  Gay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Chris Cormack
> Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2012 3:03 p.m.
> To: Srikanth Dhondi
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Improving the advanced search form
>
> On 25 October 2012 14:55, Srikanth Dhondi <srikanth at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am currently working on improving accessibility of koha opac site 
>> with our accessibility expert.
>> One of the things we noticed is that the advanced search option is not 
>> only confusing for blind users but also even for normal users.
>>
>> I have noticed the following issues with it:
>>
>> 1) By default the Fewer Options option is selected, which is not 
>> obvious to the normal users until they click on More Options.
>>
>> 2) The layout could be a lot better, in particular the Fewer Options 
>> search form is quite abstract in what it does.
>>
>> For example, the default boolean operator is AND which is not obvious 
>> to even normal user.
>>
>> In my opinion, layout similar to the one 
>> http://kea.massey.ac.nz/search/X, is better.
>>
>>     
> I'm going to disagree and say that site is horrid :)
>
> Maybe others will have different opinions though.
>
> Chris
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