[Koha-devel] Koha - Searching for Lexile Range

Nicole Engard nengard at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 18:50:55 CET 2010


This is awesome - is this something we can integrate into the Koha
advanced search page?

Nicole

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:56 AM, savitra sirohi
<savitra.sirohi at osslabs.biz> wrote:
> Richard,
>
> Yes, you should use "lex" in the searches, it is a numeric index so
> you use operators like "lt" (less than) or "le" (less than and equal
> to). Searches should be in this fashion:
>
> lex,st-numeric,lt:500
> lex, st-numeric,le:800 and lex, st-numeric, ge: 300
>
> See this DC Everest's OPAC to see this in operation (use reading
> program drop down):
> http://koha.dce.k12.wi.us/
>
> Thanks,
> Savitra Sirohi
> Nucsoft OSS Labs
> http://www.osslabs.biz
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Richard,
>>
>> There is one tip in the manual:
>> http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.2/searching/advanced-search-prefixes/view?searchterm=lexile
>> I haven't done much other than that :)
>>
>> Nicole
>>
>> 2010/1/13 Richard Forristall <Richard.Forristall at goodwillaz.org>:
>>> Good day all!
>>>
>>> I'm new to the Koha system - we're using it for our charter high school
>>> library.  We've only had it installed for about 2 months and I'm now
>>> responsible for maintenance and enhancements.
>>>
>>> In our library, we need the ability for users (high school students) to be
>>> able to search for books using a lexile number range.  For example:
>>> Find all the books that have a lexile number between 100 and 200.
>>>
>>> I don't see this as an option anywhere in the advanced search so I was going
>>> to try and create the option.  Here are my questions:
>>>
>>> 1.  Has anyone done this yet?
>>>
>>> 2.  I'm assuming there has to be something in the Zebra indexing system that
>>> allows this - being ignorant of Zebra, can anyone assist?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rick
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>> Rick Forristall
>>> Programmer Analyst
>>> Goodwill of Central AZ
>>> 602.535.4078
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>
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