[Koha-devel] maxItemsinSearchResults

[Owen Leonard]

> There is a system preference maxItemsinSearchResults, which is only
> used in 2 places, both in C4::Search.
> It's not referenced anywhere else and hence is not set.
>
> But by not setting it, it means that in the staff client the counts of
> items available at each branch behaves in an unexpected way.

Hence Bug 4430? http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4430

> The way I see it, we either kill the references to this
> systempreference, or add it back (I can only assume it existed at one

My understanding of the goal behind the preference was to prevent
cases where huge number of items make the search results screen
unmanageable. Here's a not-that-huge example from our catalog:

http://www.screencast.com/t/ZGY2ODQzY

I think it's a good option to keep.

  -- Owen

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