[Koha-devel] Catalogue search and MARC

[paul POULAIN]

Owen Leonard wrote:

>In 1.9.3, if you've got MARC-support enabled, when you click the 'Catalogue 
>Search' link on the intranet home page you're taken to the MARC search page 
>(/cgi-bin/koha/search.marc/search.pl?type=intranet), implying that the 
>intranet's 'simple' search interface doesn't work with MARC records.
>
>But when you're editing MARC item records, you can find yourself searching 
>using search.pl and ending up at catalogue-home.pl, which seems to work fine.
>
>Has this been left out because something's broken which I can't see?  Or 
>because it's being worked on?  
>
That's one of the GUI modif we have to do for 2.0 release.
You should get 2 differents parameters :
* cataloguing/search : MARC or non-MARC.
* acquisition : simple or complete.

It gives me an idea : would it be interesting for a librarian to have a 
"search page" with 'simple' AND complete/MARC search ?
With such a page, the librarian could enter "author" really fast for a 
quick-simple search, and still have a complete MARC search too.

If this sounds good, enter a "bug" at bugs.koha.org as reminder.

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)