[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24127] Remove dropdown option of shelving location from advanced search in staff

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24127

--- Comment #10 from Myka Kennedy Stephens <mkstephens at lancasterseminary.edu> ---
(In reply to Katrin Fischer, comment #9)
Absolutely, bug 24109 should be fixed. It looks like that is well underway.
(Thank you, Nick!)

I didn't mean to start a heated debate. I was sharing a recent experience when
I was particularly thankful for the easy access to search by item location in
the staff-client advanced search. Since the search does work with ES, it is
possible that other libraries (small in number, yes) are using this search
function more regularly than we do at my library.

Yes, I know shelving location is still searchable using ccl. And yes, I am
aware that it could be added back in with JS if a library really needed it. In
the use case I presented, which was different from an everyday workflow, I
would have found it annoying to remember the right ccl syntax in that
moment--but perhaps that says more about my personality than Koha! :-)

If shelving location searching didn't work in both Zebra and ES, I would see a
clear reason to remove it. But since it works in one and not the other, I think
it is important to carefully consider the benefits and drawbacks to all users,
both Zebra and ES. The more ES development takes place, it is likely that we
will run into more of these scenarios where something will work with one search
engine and not the other. Do we really want to remove a feature from Koha
because it doesn't work with Zebra, despite the fact that it works with ES? 

Perhaps a compromise would be to keep shelving location as a drop-down option
in the staff client advanced search only? If there's too much backing to remove
it altogether, I won't stand in the way. I've said my piece.

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