[Koha-devel] Koha - Searching for Lexile Range

[Nicole Engard]

Awesome!! I know several libraries who will greatly appreciate that!!

Thanks,
Nicole

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:32 AM, savitra sirohi
<savitra.sirohi at osslabs.biz> wrote:
> Richard,
>
> The lexile numbers should be in 521$a.
>
> I will supply the code later this week (we are off today), not jquery,
> I don't think.
>
> Nicole, on including this in advanced search, sure we will submit a patch.
>
> Thanks,
> Savitra
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Richard Forristall
> <Richard.Forristall at goodwillaz.org> wrote:
>> This is indeed awesome and just what our librarian is looking for - are you using jQuery to build the query from the input boxes before sending the search?
>>
>> Also, where in the MARC record and koha database are the lexile numbers supposed to be stored?  I'm not sure yet the numbers are being stored correctly in our data - I did a search for all lexile numbers < 900 and go no results. I used this in the main OPAC page's search box
>> lex,st-numeric,lt:900 and I searched in the Library Catalog.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rick
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Rick Forristall
>> Programmer Analyst
>> Goodwill of Central AZ
>> 602.535.4078
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:51 AM
>> To: savitra sirohi
>> Cc: Richard Forristall; koha-devel
>> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Koha - Searching for Lexile Range
>>
>> 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-pr
>>>> efixes/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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