Jonathan, thank you! It does work without the parentheses.
I would suspect an encoding problem, but for that the problem only manifests in the OPAC, and not the intranet. I came across this issue while testing after migrating from MariaDB to Percona MySQL. Your reply prompted me to check the encoding of the new database, and it's unfortunately Latin-1. Since these are parentheses and not diacritics, I’m not sure what my expectations should be, but changing to UTF-8 is a place to start. Httpd.conf does have UTF-8 set as the default. FWIW, my source records were encoded in MARC-8. I used MarcEdit to convert them to UTF-8, and it appears that Koha automatically converts anyway on import. When I loaded these records into Koha, I used bulkmarcimport.pl on the command line. I'll ask that the default character set of the database be changed, and see if that helps. Thanks again. I'm embarrassed that I didn't think to omit the parentheses, or rather was belligerently insisting to myself that they should not have been a problem, Tasha Bales Business Support Team | Information Services Enterprise Services | Enterprise Operations, Finance and Sustainability (480) 509-5415 https://is.web.boeing.com -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Druart [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:01 AM To: Bales (US), Tasha R <[email protected]> Cc: Discussion Group Koha <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Koha] Title search works, but Library catalog search fails in OPAC Importance: High EXT email: be mindful of links/attachments. Hello Tasha, I've created 2 records with 245$a Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators as artificial muscles and the following query returns the 2 results. /opac-search.pl?idx=&q=Electroactive%20polymer%20%28EAP%29%20actuators&weight_search=1 Tried on master and 20.11.06. Maybe a silly idea: does it work without the parenthesis? Could you try and recreate it on a sandbox (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes) and provide us a step by step plan to reproduce the problem? Regards, Jonathan Le mar. 22 juin 2021 à 00:46, Bales (US), Tasha R <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Good afternoon, > > I’m having trouble with Title vs. Library catalog keyword searching with > several example titles. Searching the same phrase with either method yields > different results. This problem occurs only in the OPAC. I hope to confirm > whether the behavior I’m seeing is intended (i.e., the problem is me) or not. > Thanks in advance. > > For example, given the ebook title, Electroactive polymer (EAP) > actuators as artificial muscles, a Title keyword search in the OPAC is > successful, but a plain, Library catalog (i.e., no index specified), keyword > search fails. > > For reference, the title is recorded in the MARC record as: > 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT > a Title Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators as artificial muscles : > > Below I’ve copied in my search history as well as the tail of the search URL > that shows the search parameters. > > > · Library catalog keyword search with 0 results > > o 2021-06-21 02:34 PM Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators, > suppress:false 0 > > o > …opac-search.pl?idx=&q=Electroactive%20polymer%20%28EAP%29%20actuators&weight_search=1 > > > · Title keyword search with 2 results > > o 2021-06-21 02:34 PM Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators, > suppress:false 2 > > o > …opac-search.pl?idx=ti&q=Electroactive+polymer+%28EAP%29+actuators&weight_search=1 > > As a test, I decided to enclose my Library catalog search terms in quotes, > which yielded the desired results. However, I did not at all anticipate that > quotes would be required to get hits: > > > · Library catalog quoted keyword search with 2 results > > o 2021-06-21 02:46 PM "Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators", > suppress:false 2 > > o … > opac-search.pl?idx=&q=%22Electroactive+polymer+%28EAP%29+actuators%22&weight_search=1 > > On comparing the above URL query strings, it appears that the unquoted terms > in the Library catalog keyword search aren’t “anded” together with a “+” the > way other searches are, but I’m not sure what the implications are, if any. > Also, the Koha manual indicates the following, which suggests to me that I > ought to get hits on the unquoted string: > > When you have more than one word in the search box, Koha will still do a > keyword search, but a bit differently. Each word will be searched on its own, > then the Boolean connector ‘and’ will narrow your search to those items with > all words contained in matching records. > > I understand and can predict pretty well the way our old ILS (Millennium, if > context helps) will perform a keyword search, but I’m a little confused here. > My expectation for this particular case is that all of the above methods > would yield results. If there are any pointers to be had, I thank you if > might point me to them so that I may be better poised to help users. > > I’m using Elasticsearch with Koha 20.11.06. I reindexed both authorities and > biblios today, but that didn’t impact my experience. The records are not > newly added. > > Thanks! > > > Tasha Bales > Business Support Team | Information Services Enterprise Services | > Enterprise Operations, Finance and Sustainability > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
