I like the idea that developers have had on the Koha IRC chanel - to replace Zebra is Solr -- that would probably solve this problem as well!
Nicole On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Ian Walls <ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > It seems like it might be a good idea to parse the search string > provided by the user (in "Googlese") into Zebra's prefix system. Not > only could we handle phrase searching, but we could do a host of other > translations (&'s give us some escapement craziness, if I recall). We > could also do things like converting ISBN-10's in ISBN-13's or vice > versa. It could even be piped into the administrative area to let > people turn on and off translations, and make it easy to develop new > ones (they'd basically be regex). > > Sounds like an RFC to write up for 3.4! > > > -Ian > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurd...@ccfls.org> > wrote: >> Hmm, I see that you can do a keyword phrase search with kw,phr= or a >> title phrase search with ti,phr=. Cool! I wonder, could a bit of code >> be added to the search module to automatically translate a string in >> quotes to one of those? >> >> Cindy >> >> Cindy Murdock Ames wrote: >>> Thanks, Nicole. I couldn't see it because my syspref for >>> "expandedSearchOption" was set to "don't show". And thanks for the link >>> to the search docs...I didn't know about the search prefixes. :) >>> >>> I agree with Kyle, though...it would be nice if we could do phrase >>> searching with quotes. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Cindy >>> >>> >>> >>> Nicole Engard wrote: >>> >>>> On your advanced search page click 'More Options' and then you'll see >>>> the Title Phrase option again. Also the searching docs are here: >>>> http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=c7881 >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Nicole >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurd...@ccfls.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Is there a way to search for phrases in the Koha catalog, or to make >>>>> Koha rank phrases higher than other search results by default? For >>>>> example, if I search for "world book", in the expectation of finding >>>>> World Book Encyclopedia, I get a vast number of search results (about >>>>> 3,400), because the words "world" and "book" are apparently fairly >>>>> common in my MARC records. I'm using 3.2 alpha with zebra, with >>>>> approximately 350,000 records. There used to be a title phrase search >>>>> option in the advanced search, but that doesn't seem to be there anymore. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> Cindy >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>> Cindy Murdock Ames >>>>> IT Services Director >>>>> Meadville Public Library | CCFLS >>>>> http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Koha-devel mailing list >>>>> Koha-devel@lists.koha.org >>>>> http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Cindy Murdock Ames >> IT Services Director >> Meadville Public Library | CCFLS >> http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel@lists.koha.org >> http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha.org > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
