Thanks, Trevor –
I do love the user preferences options – thanks for the reminder. But you are 
right, it doesn’t solve my problem. Thanks for the ideas, though!
Carrie


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I responded too quickly. We had a similar issue with searching for subjects and 
agents to link to a record, and adjusting the default sort column preferences 
fixed it (when you started typing in a subject or name the list of suggestions 
matched what you typed). But the same doesn't seem to be true for searching 
locations to link to a top container.

It does do something, though, because the list of results changes when that 
preference changes, but the results aren't what you'd expect, and don't match 
what you get when you use the search filter on the main locations page.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 1:18 PM Trevor Thornton 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Carrie-

In 2.8 the ordering of those results is specified in the preferences, which you 
can get to via the dropdown menu on the top right next to your user name. 
Preferences can be set globally, by repository or by user (presumably the more 
specific ones override the less specific ones but I haven't tested that).

On the preferences page, look for "Location Browse Columns", and under that 
look for "Default Sort Column". Setting that to "relevance" should get the 
locations to sort the way you're used to. By default, they sort alphabetically 
by name.

-Trevor

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:57 PM Daniels,Carrie 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello ArchivesSpace world -

I’m seeing behavior in version 2.8.1 that I hope is “just” a bug. It’s a 
location issue, but seems to be a little different from the other location 
issues that have already been reported, and I’m wondering if anyone else is 
encountering it.

When adding a location to a top container, we used to be able to enter location 
coordinates in the Location field in order to bring up a suggested list. It 
wasn’t perfect, but normally the location we were looking for was in the first 
couple suggestions.  Since moving to 2.8.1, this functionality seems to be 
missing. When we enter any of the coordinates, we either get the first few 
entries from the entire list of locations, or we get a more random list that 
includes entries that completely lack matches to the coordinate(s) we entered. 
We can, of course, use the browse function, but as others have noted recently, 
when you are working with many boxes, it gets old really fast!

Thanks,
Carrie

Carrie Daniels
(she/her/hers)
University Archivist and Director,
Archives & Special Collections
University of Louisville

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