[Koha-devel] Default search options in the OPAC

[Kyle Hall]

I agree, this seems like a good option. The only thing I could imagine
that would make it better would be to add a new section under
administration to define these choices so we don't require librarians
to be messing around with html. Perhaps I'm trying to make it overly
complicated though ; )

Kyle

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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Magnus Enger <magnus at enger.priv.no> wrote:
> On 18 September 2012 15:58, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
>> We've now got two patches pending which seek to add more options to
>> the default OPAC search, the masthead search bar which currently
>> includes options for Library catalog, title, author, subject, ISBN,
>> series, and call number:
>>
>> Add "Phrase" Searching to OPAC Search
>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8778
>>
>> Add accesssion [barcode] number to the drop down list in OPAC Search
>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8302
>>
>> I'll say right out that I'm opposed to these changes, but I want to
>> bring it up here on the list so we can discuss.
>
> I agree that the simple search should be simple. But we could probably
> spend a lot of time arguing about how simple is simple enough.
>
> Seems to me that it would be better to find a way to make this easily
> configurable. I'd like to suggest a simple solution:
>
> In the template, we could have
>
> <select id="masthead_search" class="left" name="idx">
> [% OPACSearchOptions %]
> </select>
>
> Then we could have a syspref called OPACSearchOptions (or something),
> with this initial content:
>
> <option value="">Library catalog</option>
> <option value="ti">Title</option>
> <option value="au">Author</option>
> <option value="su">Subject</option>
> <option value="nb">ISBN</option>
> <option value="se">Series</option>
> <option value="callnum">Call number</option>
>
> This would keep current behaviour, but make it easy to add or remove
> or re-arrange the <option> elements. And we could explain in the docs
> or on the wiki how the "value"s here relate to indexes defined in more
> or less obscure config files.
>
> Yes, it would require fiddling with HTML and Zebra (or Solr) indexes
> to change it. No, it would not be GUI and pretty. But it would be so
> simple, even I could submit a patch for it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Best regards,
> Magnus
> libriotech.no
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