Hi Kathy, I've noticed oddities as well with the searching. Yesterday, scenario 1 occurred just before I read your message. We're a member of Sitka and running 2.0.
Hopefully, someone can explain what's happening with your scenarios to the list. Melissa Melissa Lowenberg, Supervisor of Support Services Thompson-Nicola Regional District Library System #300-465 Victoria Street Kamloops, BC, V2C 2A9 Tel. 250-374-8866 Fax 250-374-8355 Please consider the environment before printing this message. > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Kathy Lussier > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:02 PM > To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group' > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inconsistent search results > > > > Hi all, > > > > We have noticed some interesting behavior with search results. This may be > a little difficult to explain, but I'm wondering if any of these issues > are bugs that can be fixed or if the behavior is there by design. If it's > by design, I would be interested in getting further explanation on what is > happening behind the scenes. > > > > I'm looking at a 2.1 system, but I've noticed this behavior in other 2.0 > catalogs as well. > > > > 1. If I conduct a search for solar system from the advanced search screen, > limit the search to my branch, and then apply a search filter for books > and non-fiction, I get 53 search results. In the search bar along the top > of the screen, the branch limiter has been carried over, but the format is > set to all formats. If the patron then clicks to limit the search to > available items or chooses to sort the results by publication date, it > looks like the system is executing the search using the parameters > contained in that search bar. Since the non-fiction and book limiters were > not carried over to the search bar, these limiters are no longer part of > the search. Therefore, if a user chooses to simply change the sort on > those results, they are suddenly dealing with 73 results that include > non-print and fiction material. > > > > 2. Doing the same search that I conducted in the above example, I see from > my facet list that there are 14 titles with the geographic subject of > "solar system." If I click on that facet, once again, the system appears > to be executing the search using parameters contained in the search bar. > The resulting list has 18 titles instead of the 14 titles that I was > expecting. These new results contain non-print and fiction material. > > > > 3. After limiting my search with a facet, I then click on the advanced > search button to conduct a new search. I notice that ft= > subject|geographic[Solar system] has carried over to the URL for this > page. I click the Reset Form button and then do a search for dogs. In this > case, I get no search results because the solar system geographic subject > facet has carried over to this search. (This library must not have any > books on dogs living in outer space.) There is no indication letting the > user know the solar system facet has been applied to this search. So, in > the first two examples, I'm in a situation where I want search limiters to > stick, but they are not sticking. In this case, I have a limiter that just > won't go away. There are only two ways I've found to get the facet to > unstick: either by conducting a new search from the basic search page or > by removing the parameters from the URL. > > > > 4. Even when I'm not applying a limiter to my search, I sometimes get an > inconsistent number of search results depending on the way the list is > sorted. This inconsistency is most likely to happen with a larger result > set. If I do a search for solar system from the basic search of our demo > system, I get 69 results - > http://egdemo.mvlcstaff.org/opac/en-US/skin/klussier/xml/rresult.xml?rt=ke > yword > <http://egdemo.mvlcstaff.org/opac/en-US/skin/klussier/xml/rresult.xml?rt=k > eyword&tp=keyword&t=solar%20system&ft=&l=4&d=2&f> > &tp=keyword&t=solar%20system&ft=&l=4&d=2&f=. The result set then ranges > anywhere from 67 to 72 depending on which sort option I select. Sorting by > title A to Z gives me 70 results and sorting by title Z to A gives me 67 > results. > > > > Any thoughts on on this? > > > > Thanks! > > Kathy Lussier > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Kathy Lussier > > Project Coordinator > > Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative > > (508) 756-0172 > > (508) 755-3721 (fax) > > [email protected] > > IM: kmlussier (AOL & Yahoo) > > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier > > >
