[Koha-devel] Patron searching change 'start_wtih' / 'contain' Bug 15252 / 15930

[Christopher Davis]

Nick,

Your observation makes sense to me. I like the quotation marks
solution presented in comment seven of bug 15930.

FWIW,

Christopher Davis, MLS
Systems & E-Services Librarian
Uintah County Library
cgdavis at uintah.utah.gov
(435) 789-0091 ext.261
uintahlibrary.org
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Nick Clemens <nick at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In bug 15252 a change was introduced to fix the problem of too many /
> irrelevant results when searching for patrons with multi-part names e.g.
> 'jean paul' 'mac beth' 'le guelec'
>
> This change now defaults many searches to 'start_with' and does not split
> terms for a 'start_with' search. This does not affect members-home.pl, but
> many other patrons searches request.pl, common/patron_search.tt ...
>
> A side effect of this change is that searching for a patrons full name i.e.
> 'Henry Acevedo' or 'Edna Acosta' returns no results as it is searching for
> [firstname like 'edna acosta%'] it also prevents searches like 'Ed aco' from
> finding results.
>
> The searches above returned results through 3.18, but 15252 is in 3.20.8 and
> 3.22.2 and master
>
> As we are seeing libraries upgrade to the newer versions we are hearing
> complaints as this is a big behaviour change from their viewpoint.
>
> Jonathan and I have been discussing on Bug 15930 and the options we have so
> far are:
> 1/ add a special case to search on firstname and surname (if start_with)
> 2/ add a pref to default on contains or start_with
> 3/ let the libraries who want a different behavior modify the default with
> some JS code
> 4/ add phrase searching with quotes and split terms otherwise
>
> Ideally we want to allow for ease in finding multi part names, but not
> introduce a change for single part names
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
>
>
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