Hi Elaine,

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


Kathy


Quoting "Hardy, Elaine" <[email protected]>:

I miss the shelving location search filter on advanced search when scoped
for a specific branch.

Elaine

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Mike Rylander
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:44 PM
To: [email protected]; 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
<[email protected]> 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.

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Technical Services Department Head
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
250 North Fifth Street
Zionsville, IN 46077
317-873-3149 x13330
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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
<[email protected]>
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)

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] 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=loc
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







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