On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:01:13PM -0500, Geoff Brown wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to construct a search url in the opac that will return new >> material by date added. I can create a search that included published >> date of 2012 but the list doesn't seem to sort with the newest at the >> top since they are all the same year. I was hoping to create some >> quick search links for our website pointing patrons to new material so >> if there is a better way to go about this I would love to hear what >> others are doing. > > Assuming JSPAC, throw &s=create_date&sd=desc on the end of the > URL (and remove the s=pubdate&sd=desc if you were sorting by publication > date)? That will skip electronic resources, unfortunately, unless you > attach dummy copies, which is an evil evil practice.
Hrm .. that shouldn't be true, since the create_date sort axis is the time the bib was added to the system. There's also edit_date for recently changed bibs, FWIW. -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
