http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14567 --- Comment #11 from Heather <heather_hernandez@nps.gov> --- (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #10)
I was thinking this morning, maybe a 'starts with' search option could help to bring the result list a little closer to an alphabetic index. Could this be an option?
It sounds to me like it could be an option, if the results were an alphabetic list of terms from the searched index, rather than a list of records.
I have asked some of the coworkers to give the search a test, but some of the results are quite confusing.
Example: Exact, Author: Miller The first result shown is "Millard, Annie". I didn't expect that for the exact search option, but only with fuzzy activated.
It sounds like your "exact" is kind of "fuzzy!"
Another issue could be related to ISBD punctuation in the fields. Often there are 2 entries which what seems to be the same author, only different by a . at the end:
Example: Exact, Author: Smith Smith, Alexander Gordon. Smith, Alexander Gordon Smith, Jim Smith, Jim.
Would be good if those could be merged for display and search.
Could this also be an issue of variations in the headings' $q fields, which Koha tends to not display in search results, and when used there's no punctuation between the end of the $a and the beginning of the $q subfields? In your example, above, the headings could be for different people, and so should not be merged, e.g., could be: 100 1_ Smith, Alexander Gordon. 100 1_ Smith, Alexander Gordon $q (Alexander Gordon Frank) 100 1_ Smith, Jim $q (James Allen) 100 1_ Smith, Jim. (The headings' variations are most likely the result of GIGO, & so proper authority control would collate them.) --h2 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.