[Evergreen-general] Catalog search filters in staff client

[Rogan Hamby]

Just noting that my experience is the same as Kate's.  An asterisk does
work but somewhere along the way an empty value or spaces are considered a
non-search.

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:15 AM Kate Coleman <kcoleman at jeffcolib.org>
wrote:

> We are using 3.6.3 and have found the asterisk to be necessary.
>
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> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 9:17 AM Benjamin Kalish <bkalish at forbeslibrary.org>
> wrote:
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>> 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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