Hi all, I've finally tried to get the search ideas from my head, out onto something like a mockup of a page. http://katipo.co.nz/gallery/koha2-4 The problem it seeks to solve on the search results page is where someone gets too many results to usefully look through, and wants to reduce them. On the details page, it's seeking to help people broaden out their search again, if this isn't quite what they wanted, or if they want to find more titles similar to this one. I was also wanting to be more "explicit" about the author search as well. Look forward to your thoughts Cheers Rachel -- ----------------------------- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager Katipo Communications Ltd Phone: +64-4-934 1285 Mobile: 021 389 128 E-mail: rachel@katipo.co.nz Web: www.katipo.co.nz
Rachel suggested:
I like the idea of cutting down large lists of results. Have you seen http://www.gigablast.com/ and its GigaBits? I find that pretty useful. It may be too slow for koha, though, unless some guru can devise a good system of indices. I think that the filters on your results page are a good addition for starters. I don't like the suggestion of a pop-up for things one has already borrowed. Maybe a highlighted line of text instead? -- MJR/slef http://www.ttllp.co.uk/koha/
MJ Ray said:
Rachel suggested:
(cool, Rachel!) <snip>
It may be too slow for koha, though, unless some guru can devise a good system of indices.
Speaking of indices... I've been in touch recently with one of the guys from our old commercial ILS (Spydus, aka Civica), and he pointed me to one of their recent installs: http://dalby.spydus.lgaq.asn.au/spydus.html If you do a "browse" search for author or title, you can click on a little arrow and page through the succeeding _and_ preceding(!) authors or titles in the catalog (alphabetical order). They can do this because they use their own indexing, not the SQL indexing. (Their indexing always was their best feature.) Stephen -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges@skemotah.com
http://dalby.spydus.lgaq.asn.au/spydus.html
If you do a "browse" search for author or title, you can click on a little arrow and page through the succeeding _and_ preceding(!) authors or titles
I've been wishing for that for a while now! http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=569 And yes, it was because Spydus could do it. It's a very useful feature, not just because it helps people find things they're looking for, but it helps them find things they're *not* looking for too. -- Owen
Hi
I don't like the suggestion of a pop-up for things one has already borrowed. Maybe a highlighted line of text instead?
The thought there was an indicator on the title (a start in this case) that if you moused/clicked over would come up with the text box - it wouldn't pop up by default cheers R
-- ----------------------------- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager Katipo Communications Ltd Phone: +64-4-934 1285 Mobile: 021 389 128 E-mail: rachel@katipo.co.nz Web: www.katipo.co.nz
Rachel explained:
The thought there was an indicator on the title (a start in this case) that if you moused/clicked over would come up with the text box - it wouldn't pop up by default
To me, that's so-called "mystery meat". If it's important enough to have the information in the page, it should be part of the page. Why hide it? If it does happen like that, it would need careful handling to avoid causing accessibility problems. -- MJR/slef http://www.ttllp.co.uk/koha/
Alright Rachel--no fair teasing us with beautiful mockups! Now I want this stuff! I agree with MJR that the pop-up probably isn't the best way to mark something has having been borrowed before, but that's pretty minor. Everything looks great. Alright, who's making this happen? :) -- Owen
Hi
Alright Rachel--no fair teasing us with beautiful mockups! Now I want this stuff! I agree with MJR that the pop-up probably isn't the best way to mark something has having been borrowed before, but that's pretty minor. Everything looks great.
Alright, who's making this happen? :)
We have templates that are already mostly like this - they were in 2.0 "Katipo" I think. We should be doing code like this for our new library I hope, so if you can wait a month we should have something to send to you to use as a base. Would that work? Cheers R
-- Owen
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