[Koha-patches] [PATCH] Made changes to add sorting on the catalouging screen in the intranet section.

[satyanarayana holenarsipur]

Will this change also help in all kinds of sorting, as i want sorting by
title, relavance, popularity, call number, author

Regards,
Satya

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Mason James <mason.loves.sushi at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 2009/07/2, at 6:49 PM, satyanarayana holenarsipur wrote:
>
>  Hi Joe,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> Yes. It is very similar to main search code. I wanted a sorting feature
>> very similar to what we have now was the search results page. The sort
>> dropdown comes right next to the results table. But I faced a lot of
>> problems while doing this.
>>
>> The search.pl uses 'getRecords' function to get the records, store it and
>> pas it to the templates.
>> The addbooks.pl uses 'SimpleSearch' function to get the records, store it
>> and pass it to the templates.
>>
>> SimpleSearch has 'offset' as its parameter, but it is only used for
>> pagination function. and cannot be used for sorting the result set.
>>
>
>
> hiya Satyanarayana
>
> i too recently made a sorting change to addbooks.pl
> by simply giving SimpleSearch() a better query.
>
>
> +    my $ti_query =  qq|ti,rt,wrdl,r3="$query"|;
> +
>     # find results
> -    my ( $error, $marcresults, $total_hits ) = SimpleSearch($query,
> $results_per_page * ($page - 1), $results_per_page);
> +    my ( $error, $marcresults, $total_hits ) = SimpleSearch($ti_query,
> $results_per_page * ($page - 1), $results_per_page);
>
>
> this cleaner method is adequate for your addbooks.pl sorting needs, surely?
>
>
>


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