[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Supercat and rss feeds

[Whalen, Liam]

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Whalen, Liam 
> <Liam.Whalen at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> wrote:
> >> > The benefit of using OpenSearch, I hope, is that it will exclude 
> >>records  that do not have copies associated with them.  If that is 
> >>true, then all I  need to know is how to return a list of the most 
> >>recent
> >>> additions to the catalogue via OpenSearch, and how to limit the 
> >>>results  of to a specific format like Journals.  Does 
> anyone know how to do that?
> >> Assuming EG 2.0 or later, ou wat to add "sort(create_date) 
> #descending"
> >> (IIRC) to the query portion of the url.
> >
> > Thanks for the tip, that let me know it was possible.  I've 
> gotten a 
> > little farther.  Now I have the following OpenSearch string:
> >
> > 
> http://dev.catalogue.nrcan.gc.ca/opac/extras/opensearch/1.1/-/rss2-ful
> > 
> > option in the URL, but I get less than 50 returned.  Is OpenSearch 
> > supposed to act like the catalogue, or am I trying to make 
> it do things it wasn't designed to do?
> >
> 
> It all depends on what you're really trying to get.
>
... 
> ).  Or, as you saw with the freshmeat feed, you can browse by 
> cataloging activity (import or edit), globally.  With 
> OpenSearch, simply adding "sort(create_date)#descending" 
> (url-encoded, of course) to the searchTerms param (or even 

I forgot all about url-encoding the string.  That has helped immensely. 

...

> That's not, per se, an abuse of OpenSearch -- at least not in 
> Evergreen's context -- because Evergreen explicitly allows 
> the full power of its search grammar ( 
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation:te
> chnical:search_grammar
> ) in the OpenSearch searchTerms parameter.

Thank you very much for the explanations and the link to the search grammar.  That will allow me to accomplish exactly what I need to get done.

Liam