[Evergreen-general] Catalog search filters in staff client

[Kate Coleman]

We are using 3.6.3 and have found the asterisk to be necessary.


Kate Coleman, MLIS
Technical Services Manager, Jefferson County Library
Missouri Evergreen Consortium
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High Ridge, MO 63049
636-677-8689
Fax: 636--677-1769
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On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 9:17 AM Benjamin Kalish <bkalish at forbeslibrary.org>
wrote:

> I don't believe you need the asterisk. Leaving that field blank should be
> sufficient.
>
> *But also...*
>
> My understanding is that we can't rely on the OPAC to return all results
> when many items match the criteria—for that you need to run a report.
> Unless the collection is very small, limiting to a shelving location and
> not providing any keywords will likely result in items missing from the
> returned results. Someone please correct me if I am wrong—I'd love to be
> wrong about this—but we ran into this same problem years ago and this is
> what we were told at that time.
>
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> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 11:57 AM Simone Rauscher <srauscher at grimsby.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Kendra’s question made me think of something else I have been wondering
>> about. I’m working in 3.6, and I’m finding the search filters in the staff
>> client Catalog Keyword Search are not working for me the way I thought they
>> would. Particularly, searching by shelving location or “All Copy Locations”.
>>
>> As an example, When I try to look up all the items we have in our French
>> Language collection. I go to the filter options and in “All copy locations”
>> and select “French Language (GRIMSBY)”, put a * in the search field and
>> press enter.
>>
>> This I would think should bring up all the records that have copies
>> attached with the Shelving Location of “French Language (GRIMSBY)”, but I
>> get a bunch of a results that do not meet these parameters. Bibs with no
>> items attached, random DVDs, video games etc. I’ve tried to choose “French”
>> under the “All Languages”, but they just gives me a different set of random
>> results.
>>
>> Is there a trick I am missing? Maybe I can’t use * to do a blanket type
>> search like this? Basically I’d like to be able to look up every title I
>> have in a specific collection without having to run a report. Any tips?
>> Anyone know of any bugs? Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Simone Rauscher
>> Cataloguing and Collections Coordinator
>>
>> srauscher at grimsby.ca
>>
>> 905-309-2063
>>
>>
>>
>> Grimsby Public Library
>>
>> www.grimsby.ca/library
>>
>>
>>
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