[Koha-devel] Re: [Bug 193] Multiple search criteria in OPAC gives misleading feedback

[Ambrose LI <acli@ada.dhs.org> via forwarder]

Hi,

In article <000c01c2cde6$077e8720$8ce24543 at alcalame>,
Albert P. Calame <albert.p.calame at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>    One comment. The software in your local public library has
>a serious flaw if it doesn't allow for entering search terms in
>more than one field at a time.  There should be the option to
>adjust the Boolean operators between fields as well as using
>them within fields that are searched. I would hope that we are
>not thinking of restricting Boolean searching to one field at a
>time.

no, I'm not thinking of restricting Boolean searching to one
field at a time. The non-MARC Advanced Search, however, does
*currently* not seem to properly support searching on more than
one field (I didn't realize this until I have to read the code
that does the searching). I was proposing that we probably
should make this point clear, in order to avoid confusing
people.

I just thought that if my local public library's OPAC has such
a note, it is not too strange to put such a note on Koha's
(non-MARC) search screen.  Of course, when the search is fixed
so that it can properly support entering more than one search
term, the note should be taken out.



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Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing  <a.c.li at ieee.org>