[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inconsistent/wrong search results when searching by location in TPAC

[Holly Brennan]

"This improves the presentation and allows for title sorting but the search takes *forever* to return and the results are always way off and frequently do not return any results at all. Having just tried it, TPAC claims there are no results whatsoever. Two or three page refreshes later it turns up 353 items. According to the DB we have 1951 distinct bibs with items in those locations.



Has anyone else seen this behavior? Is there an open bug on it? Should there be?"



Weird. We, too, use "New Books" as a location for searching. I just pulled up the whole batch of new adult books in our library (5,070 records) without a problem. It took maybe one second to load the page.



I didn't find a delay using your search method, either.



I know this is sort of non-information, but it could be helpful so I chimed in. Let us know if you solve the problem!



-Holly







Holly Brennan

Library Technology Specialist

Homer Public Library

907-235-3180 (main)

907-435-3154 (direct)

hbrennan at cityofhomer-ak.gov







-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Justin Hopkins
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:56 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inconsistent/wrong search results when searching by location in TPAC



Hi guys,



Like probably many others, we have noticed that Evergreen is lacking a really good "new books" feature. We've explored this:



http://missourievergreen.org/opac/extras/browse/html-full/item-age/SRLWA



The presentation of this option isn't very good though, and ideally we'd have the ability to sort by title.



It just so happens that our library who is most interested in this has a shelving location at each of their branches called New Books. So we tried this approach using search syntax:



http://missourievergreen.org/eg/opac/results?fi:item_type=&query=locations(1307,1308,1309,1310,1311,1558,1559)+&qtype=keyword&locg=174&sort=titlesort)



This improves the presentation and allows for title sorting but the search takes *forever* to return and the results are always way off and frequently do not return any results at all. Having just tried it, TPAC claims there are no results whatsoever. Two or three page refreshes later it turns up 353 items. According to the DB we have 1951 distinct bibs with items in those locations.



Has anyone else seen this behavior? Is there an open bug on it? Should there be?

Regards,

Justin




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