Hi Eric, Thank you for your reply. I am not sure how the zebra indexing works. I also thought that the colon was not treated literally. There are several other instances having colon marks and they are searchable using the full title. I have tried both general search and advanced search but I still couldn't search some of the titles having colon punctuation marks. For example, the list below has one or more colons after searching for ":" mark <http://107.170.225.98:8080/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?idx=kw&q=%3A&offset=19880&sort_by=relevance_dsc> but still searchable using the full title.:
1. http://107.170.225.98/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=20343 2. http://107.170.225.98:8080/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblionumber=20347 3. http://107.170.225.98/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=20264 I tried changing the search preferences for the values of QueryFuzzy and QueryStemming but that didn't make a difference in search results for the titles having colon punctuation marks. I'd appreciate it if I could get a solution to this issue. Thank you. Regards, Dibyendra Hyoju On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:01 AM Eric Phetteplace <ephettepl...@cca.edu> wrote: > Hi Dibyendra, > > Since the searches work when you omit the colon, I suspect that it is > being treated as a special character and not interpreted literally, causing > queries to fail. I know that authority searches look like "an:510335" so I > think the role of a colon is to separate an index ("an" for "authority > number") from the value being looked for in that index (in this case, the > identifier 510335). I also see a query like "Provider:Oxford University > Press" so your searches might fail because "Bhutan: new pathways to growth" > means, to Zebra, *search the "Bhutan" index for the value "new pathways > to growth"*. > > In a few test searches on our Koha, using the advanced search field and > performing a Title Phrase query on the full title, including the colon, > works. I suspect that if you want keyword searches with colons to work you > need to escape the colon somehow, though I don't know Zebra well enough to > know how to do that. Is there any reason why you can't just omit the > colons? Why are they required? If you could link to your Koha instance or > provide more details on how you're searching (using keyword searches? using > the advanced search form?) that would help us troubleshoot. > > Best, > > ERIC PHETTEPLACE Systems Librarian (he/him) > > ephettepl...@cca.edu | o 510.594.3660 > > 5212 Broadway | Oakland, CA | 94618 > > :(){ :|: & };: > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:03 AM Dibyendra Hyoju <dibyen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I am having trouble searching some of the records in the database having a >> colon ":" punctuation mark in the titles such as "Marx at the Margins: On >> Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies", "Bhutan: new pathways >> to growth", "Dayananda Sarasvati: his life and ideas", etc. However, I >> could search these records without typing a colon punctuation mark during >> the search just like "Bhutan new pathways to growth", "Dayananda Sarasvati >> his life and ideas". The complete title is in the 245a tag field without >> using remainder of the title. What could be the problem? I have rebuilt >> the >> index by issuing koha-rebuild-zebra -f -v <instance> twice but some of the >> titles mentioned above are still not searchable using full title including >> colon punctuation mark. I'd appreciate if anyone in the list could share >> the solution to this issue. Thank you. >> >> -- >> Dibyendra Hyoju >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz >> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
