Hi, Thanks for taking the initiative on this!
I don't know if this is within the scope of the project, but as an example of a search that doesn't work, last year I spent a lot of time & effort failing to come up with a search query that would show all new titles at a branch. I constructed a CCL query I thought would return biblios having at least one item with both a given branch and an acquisition date in the last 30 days. But among the search results was a biblio with two items, one at the desired branch but acquired more than 30 days ago, and one acquired in the last 30 days but at a different branch. Galen ultimately confirmed for me that you can't query for an item that meets two conditions, as CCL queries extend across the whole biblio--if one item in a biblio meets one of the conditions and another item meets the other condition, the biblio is returned. I hope all that was clear. Thanks again, Daniel On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:01 AM, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Salvete! > > Let's fix it together! > > In June, there was discussion on the list dealing with search. [1] I had long > been a proponent of "Don't touch it! I love it! It works!" As Koha matured, > the search slipped a little. I get annoyed when I find preferences that > result in stunningly different search results on different catalogues. I > don't want there to be a large discrepancy in what users can find at one > Library and won't ever find at another if both Libraries run Koha. > > Some search related system preferences are somewhat counter-intuitive, and > not nearly as helpful as one might hope. I resigned myself to sadly nodding > my head when I checked on the behaviours mentioned in the listserv > discussion. Jared mentioned wanting to see search fixed on IRC, so I > challenged him to be the one to take it on. > > I still think we have a better search than most ILSs, but I want to get back > to being the best out there by far. We've talked about group financing of > enhancements before. Sometimes this happens. I feel that a lot of > enhancements for Koha don't come to fruition because folks are scared to ask > for aestimates, or realise that they can't afford it all on their own. > > Your Library doesn't have to sponsor this on its own. If you've not put in > for developments recently, we urge you to do so now. If you know about an > appropriate grant for this sort of work, do let me know. I'll take a shot at > writing it. > > Jared is willing to bang his head against this project. I am willing to run > test searches. I asked him to dice things up so that people can afford to > contribute. Some subcomponents of the rewrite will only run about $3000. The > loose aestimate for the entire first phase is roughly $70,000. > > I realise that budget times are tight, but we're hoping with a new fiscal > year, now might be a good time to act on fixing a major stumbling block to > usability. If we split the costs, this is eminently doable and will happen > sooner rather than later. Jared and I want to make this better for users, but > neither of us can afford to do so for free. > > We want your feedback in this process. We don't want to develop in a vacuum. > It would be nice to have a few discussions like we did with holds slips. You > can see what we're talking about here: > > https://trello.com/board/search-rewrite/4ff86aadd9b1c1436f2aefee > > Ask Jared for an invitation if you want to modify it. We'll also be adding > material under the RFCs section of the Community Wiki. > > We'll need people to test things and to run searches that will make us laugh > and cry. > > So let's do it. Let's make it happen. Let's make Koha better. > > [1]http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2012-June/033230.html > > Cheers, > Brooke > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
