[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Sorting Searches by Date Added

[Geoff Brown]

Hi Mike,

Much appreciated.
I got it to work. That is it! 

Thanks,
Geoff 

>>> Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> 2/23/2012 9:20 PM >>>
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:01:13PM -0500, Geoff Brown wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to construct a search url in the opac that will return new
>> material by date added.  I can create a search that included published
>> date of 2012 but the list doesn't seem to sort with the newest at the
>> top since they are all the same year.  I was hoping to create some
>> quick search links for our website pointing patrons to new material so
>> if there is a better way to go about this I would love to hear what
>> others are doing.
>
> Assuming JSPAC, throw &s=create_date&sd=desc on the end of the
> URL (and remove the s=pubdate&sd=desc if you were sorting by publication
> date)? That will skip electronic resources, unfortunately, unless you
> attach dummy copies, which is an evil evil practice.

Hrm .. that shouldn't be true, since the create_date sort axis is the
time the bib was added to the system.  There's also edit_date for
recently changed bibs, FWIW.

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