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

Wed Jan 22 14:51:20 EST 2014

Ahh-- now I follow the thread. I usually search all of PINES and rarely
just a branch so haven't seen this in the OPAC filters. We just went live
with 2.5 from 2.3 this week and my initial test searching as not for a
branch.

Elaine

J. Elaine Hardy
PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Ste 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304

404.235-7128
404.235-7201, fax
ehardy at georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org/pines

-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Kathy Lussier
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:40 PM
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inconsistent/wrong search results when
searching by location in TPAC

Hi Elaine,

The filter was restored to tpac in 2.5.  
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1084732

Kathy

Quoting "Hardy, Elaine" <ehardy at georgialibraries.org>:

> I miss the shelving location search filter on advanced search when 
> scoped for a specific branch.
>
> Elaine
>
> J. Elaine Hardy
> PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager Georgia Public Library Service
> 1800 Century Place, Ste 150
> Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
>
> 404.235-7128
> 404.235-7201, fax
> ehardy at georgialibraries.org
> www.georgialibraries.org
> www.georgialibraries.org/pines
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf 
> Of Mike Rylander
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:44 PM
> To: sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us; Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inconsistent/wrong search results when 
> searching by location in TPAC
>
> Sarah,
>
> There may be implementation-specific tuning that would improve the 
> situation for you.  I'd recommend having your support vendor look into 
> that.  There are cases where large data sets need an index and small 
> ones do not, and we can't always predict where those will be or how to 
> define "large" in every case.  I would not be surprised if this was 
> one such case, but it's not guaranteed either.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Sarah Childs 
> <sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us> wrote:
>> We experience the same thing when we try to narrow a search to a 
>> particular shelving location. It generally just times out. I assume 
>> that approach works for single installations of Evergreen, and 
>> perhaps even small consortiums, but it's basically worthless for us.
>>
>> ---
>> Sarah Childs
>> Technical Services Department Head
>> Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
>> 250 North Fifth Street
>> Zionsville, IN 46077
>> 317-873-3149 x13330
>> sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us
>>
>>
>> On 2014-01-21 20:55, Mike Rylander wrote:
>>>
>>> Justin,
>>>
>>> The reason that search is slow is that you're effectively asking the 
>>> system to return all bib records, then pull up all their copies, 
>>> then pull up those copies' shelving locations, and finally filter 
>>> out records that do not have copies that do not have shelving 
>>> locations in your list.  That is exactly the reason I built the new 
>>> items functionality.
>>>
>>> With a little elbow grease, one could certainly use one of the many 
>>> XML format output options available for use with the new items list 
>>> to re-sort them however one would like, and display them exactly as 
>>> one would wish.  Just try replacing "html-full" with "atom" or "rss2".
>>>
>>> In fact, you could even use the OPAC to do the heavy lifting for you 
>>> if you were to extract the record IDs from the XML new item feed and 
>>> built a search using the record_list() filter and the 
>>> sort(titlesort) operator.
>>>
>>> Perhaps, with likely less total effort, an opac format could be 
>>> added to the new item list, along with support for additional query 
>>> components (such as sorting) in the case of the opac format.  A 
>>> simple redirect would do.
>>>
>>> A wishlist bug sounds like a good idea.  Perhaps time or funding 
>>> will materialize.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Holly Brennan 
>>> <haderhold at ci.homer.ak.us>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "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/
>>>> S
>>>> RLWA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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=lo
>>>> c 
>>>> ations(1307,1308,1309,1310,1311,1558,1559)+&qtype=keyword&locg=174&
>>>> s
>>>> ort=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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Rylander
>>>  | Director of Research and Development  | Equinox Software, Inc. / 
>>> Your Library's Guide to Open Source  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS
>>> (673-6457)  | email:  miker at esilibrary.com  | web:
>>> http://www.esilibrary.com
>
>
>
> --
> Mike Rylander
>  | Director of Research and Development  | Equinox Software, Inc. / 
> Your Library's Guide to Open Source  | phone:
> 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)  | email:  miker at esilibrary.com  | web:
> http://www.esilibrary.com
>