[Evergreen-catalogers] Multilingual searching in the OPAC

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

Hi Janet --

I'm on my way out the door but here's the official docs Equinox wrote to
accompany this; hope it helps!

http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/3.1/_multilingual_search_in_evergreen.html

ABN

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:04 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I was asked to test the multilingual searching on our training server,
> 3.2.4. I see this is a new feature and there's a bug LP# 1733695. I read
> the specs for the development, but am not getting what it is supposed to
> do. I can do a search for multiple languages by using the CTRL key to
> highlight more than one choice. This is a boolean OR search. Is the
> multilingual search supposed to find records with both languages such as
> bilingual texts?
>
> I know I am searching the languages in the 041 field because doing a
> search for *black panther boseman* limited to French brings up the
> English language DVD that is also dubbed and subtitled in French. If I hold
> down the CTRL key and choose French and Chinese I still get the same two
> records as we don't have this DVD dubbed or subtitles in Chinese, so the
> boolean search is French OR Chinese.
>
> I think I'm missing something obvious but don't know what.
>
>
> Janet
>
> PS: At least it isn't those double vision subject headings. 🙂
>
>
> Janet Schrader
>
> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>
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>
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Andrea Buntz Neiman
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