[Koha-bugs] [Bug 14992] New: New options and clarification for authority search modes dropdown

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Fri Oct 9 11:12:43 CEST 2015


http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14992

            Bug ID: 14992
           Summary: New options and clarification for authority search
                    modes dropdown
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Searching
          Assignee: gmcharlt at gmail.com
          Reporter: gaetan.boisson at biblibre.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

Right now the options for searching in the authorities in the dropdown menu are
confusing a lot of users.

They are:
Contains
Starts with
Is exactly

What they actually do is:

"Contains" searches for all the terms entered, in any order, with a right
truncature.

"Starts with" searches for all the terms entered, in that order, with a right
truncature. The matching subfield itself doesn't have to start with the terms
entered. If you search for "John", "Cash, Johnny" will be a valid result. (This
is the most confusing option right now.)

"Is exactly" searches for all the terms entered, in that order, without a
truncature. The whole subfield doesn't have to match the phrase entered by the
user though, so if you search for "Johnny", "Cash, Johnny" will be a valid
result, more confusingly "Smith-Cash, Johnny" will be a valid result if you
search for "Cash, Johnny".

This patch will change the options offered so that they are:
"with truncature, in any order" (what "contains" does right now)
"without truncature, in any order" (new option, all the entered terms exactly
as they were entered, in any order)
"without truncature, in that order" (what "is exactly" does right now)
"Is exactly" (new option, there is a subfield that matches exactly the entered
sequence, the whole subfield has to match)

The current "Starts with" will be removed as there doesn't seem to be a way of
searching for "the subfield starts with" (See bug 11158). What it does right
now would be "with truncature, in that order" but i cannot think of  a useful
case for this. (It allows for searching for "Cas John" and finding "Cash,
Johnny".) If someone sees a reason to keep it, then we will reword it to "with
truncature, in that order".

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