It would be good to give folks the option on install, Zebra or Solr. Would lead to a more modular design, and give folks more control over their system. Of course, that would introduce yet another layer of complexity when troubleshooting search bugs, but I think that's an acceptable trade off. Does anyone disagree?
-Ian On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Nicole Engard <neng...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > >
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