[Koha-devel] Default search options in the OPAC

[Fischer, Katrin]

Hi all,

I am sorry, but there is a big problem with that solution as suggested. The search options won't be translatable and only available in one language at a time. I think what we really need is a way to have all the HTML system preferences in an editor like we have for news that supports content for multiple languages.

Katrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
> bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Hall
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 1:38 PM
> To: Magnus Enger
> Cc: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Default search options in the OPAC
> 
> 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
> 
> http://www.kylehall.info
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> Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) Crawford County Federated
> Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) Mill Run Technology Solutions (
> http://millruntech.com )
> 
> 
> 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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