[Koha-devel] searching for phrases

[Cindy Murdock Ames]

Hmm, I see that you can do a keyword phrase search with kw,phr= or a 
title phrase search with ti,phr=.  Cool!  I wonder, could a bit of code 
be added to the search module to automatically translate a string in 
quotes to one of those?

Cindy

Cindy Murdock Ames wrote:
> Thanks, Nicole.  I couldn't see it because my syspref for 
> "expandedSearchOption" was set to "don't show".  And thanks for the link 
> to the search docs...I didn't know about the search prefixes.  :)
>
> I agree with Kyle, though...it would be nice if we could do phrase 
> searching with quotes.
>
> Cheers,
> Cindy
>
>
>
> Nicole Engard wrote:
>   
>> On your advanced search page click 'More Options' and then you'll see
>> the Title Phrase option again.  Also the searching docs are here:
>> http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=c7881
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nicole
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurdock at ccfls.org> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to search for phrases in the Koha catalog, or to make
>>> Koha rank phrases higher than other search results by default?  For
>>> example, if I search for "world book", in the expectation of finding
>>> World Book Encyclopedia, I get a vast number of search results (about
>>> 3,400), because the words "world" and "book" are apparently fairly
>>> common in my MARC records.  I'm using 3.2 alpha with zebra, with
>>> approximately 350,000 records.  There used to be a title phrase search
>>> option in the advanced search, but that doesn't seem to be there anymore.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Cindy
>>>
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