https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24807 Bug ID: 24807 Summary: Add "year" type to improve sorting by publication date Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 - low Component: Searching - Elasticsearch Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: glasklas@gmail.com When sorting on date-of-publication (a year, field 008, positions 7-10), the current behavior when the field contains an invalid year (containing word characters like "uuuu" or just whitespace), these results appear first when sorting in descending order. Invalid values like these should really not be indexed at all. If so (having null values instead) they will always appear last when sorting, regardless of sort order. This fix adds a "year" search field type, that will reject any non-year values, resulting in a more user friendly sorting behavior. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.