[Koha-devel] Koha - Searching for Lexile Range

[Richard Forristall]

Savitra,

This is fantastic!!!

We have a charter high school with at-risk teenagers - they've been in environments that have been far less that optimal and our librarian has their success in mind.  Having them read within (or slightly above) their lexile range is a way to help ensure these students succeed.

Our librarian will be elated at this option!

Thanks again!

Rick Forristall
Gooodwill of Central Arizona


-----Original Message-----
From: savitra sirohi [mailto:savitra.sirohi at osslabs.biz]
Sent: Thu 1/14/2010 3:32 AM
To: Richard Forristall
Cc: Nicole Engard; koha-devel
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Koha - Searching for Lexile Range
 
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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