[Evergreen-general] Catalog search filters in staff client

Fri May 14 12:22:34 EDT 2021

Thanks Benjamin, Kate and Rogan for your insights!

I wonder why, if it allows the search to proceed, these filters are not tapping into the item holdings successfully when omitting a search term.. specifically that it pulls up a random assortment of non-French titles instead of just nothing at all? Hmm guess I am stuck with running reports for now!

I may make a bug about this in the future, please let me know if you know of any covering this.

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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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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!

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