[Koha-bugs] [Bug 629] New: confusing search results/inconsistent details views

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http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=629

           Summary: confusing search results/inconsistent details views
           Product: Koha
           Version: 2.0.0
          Platform: PC
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: OPAC
        AssignedTo: chris at katipo.co.nz
        ReportedBy: ewan at cs.auckland.ac.nz
         QAContact: koha-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net


keyword search looks at the notes and seriestitle fields of biblio (possibly
others). opac-details.pl doesn't show those fields. This means that a patron
can do a search, get a hit, but on looking at the details of the hit have
no idea why (because the match occurred on fields the patron can't see). At
minimum, this will be confusing. It may also result in reports of "bugs in
searching" (or worse, a low opinion of koha).

Note that at the moment (I believe) keyword search in opac and intranet return
identical results. However they show different details. In particular, intranet
shows the notes and seriestitle fields.

I think the question is whether or not to show all the fields that keyword
search looks at. For seriestitle, I don't see any reason why this shouldn't
be shown, but the notes field is less clear. I've only got the sampledata to
work from, and some of what appears in those notes fields doesn't look like
information intended for patrons.

Alternatively, opac and intranet keyword search could return different results.

Or even, intranet search could have two kinds of keyword search.

Whatever, this probably needs to be resolved at some point, although it's
probably not necessary to have done so for the 2.0.0 release.



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