Hi, I believe this may be a misunderstanding on how the "Browse by Author" pages work in DSpace.
When you visit the Browse By Author page in DSpace, you'll see all the Authors in the system listed alphabetically by surname (last name). This can be seen on the demo site: https://demo.dspace.org/browse/author The "Browse/Search" box on that page notes specifically that you can "Filter results by typing the first few letters". It is NOT a normal search box, but rather allows you to immediately filter that list of all Authors down to ones whose surname begins with certain letters. However, the *key point* is that box is expecting you to type the author's *surname (last name) first* , because that is how the authors are listed in that "Browse by Author" page. So, on the demo site, you can see that if you type in "De" or "De Wael" you will *filter that list of authors to only those whose surname starts with that text.* Therefore, typing "De Wael" in that box will return two results: "De Wael, K" and "De Wael, Karolien" See on the demo site: https://demo.dspace.org/browse/author?bbm.page=1&startsWith=De%20Wael However, if you instead type "Karolien", you will receive *no results* because no authors in the system have a surname of "Karolien" See on the demo site: https://demo.dspace.org/browse/author?bbm.page=1&startsWith=Karolien Keep in mind, the global search page will act differently however. If you type "Karolien De Wael" in the global search (in the header or homepage or search page), then you will get results related to that author. For example, on the demo site: https://demo.dspace.org/search?query=Karolien%20De%20Wael&spc.page=1 This is expected behavior in DSpace because the "Browse by Author" page only searches for author names (surname first) that *start with* that text. But, the global search page will search across the entire system for anything that matches. I hope that helps to better explain the behavior you are seeing. Tim On Friday, May 16, 2025 at 6:08:35 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > I just checked right now version 8, on demo websitem and it has the same > issue. > > > > [image: Captura.PNG] > > > But if you search his name as "Karolien De Wael" no results are given: > > [image: Captura.PNG] > > > El dia dissabte, 10 de maig del 2025 a les 23:15:37 UTC+2, Árpád Magyar va > escriure: > >> Dear All, > > >> We have some search issues on the browse page using "search the >> repository' search bar to filter the results. >> Using the menu 'All of Dspace' > by Subject > 'Search the repository', >> only lowercase, truncated, and unaccented subject terms are displayed, with >> broken links (with the message 'no items to show') >> E.g.: >> *Adriai-tenger > adriaiteng* >> *adatfeldolgozás > adatfeldolgoza* >> >> The same issue occurs when searching for authors on the browsing page. >> E.g.: >> *Asztalos István > asztalo* >> >> Using the "Search the repository" search bar on the pages 'browsing by >> issue date' and 'by title' works fine. >> Could this be an indexing issue? >> The links in the list of authors and subject terms work fine. The issue >> only occurs when we filter using the top search bar on the browsing pages. >> >> Dspace version: 8.0 (updated from 7.2) Java version: 17.0.14 >> >> Could you please help solve this issue? Any idea would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks so much, >> >> Arpad >> >> [image: Browsing-issue-author-1.jpg][image: >> Browsing-issue-author-2.jpg][image: >> Browsing-issue-author-3.jpg][image: Browsing-issue-subject-1.jpg][image: >> Browsing-issue-subject-2.jpg] >> > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/e5b6c08d-90bf-4744-830e-d8933d79d1f4n%40googlegroups.com.
