#363: Number of results show in XML-ish formats
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Reporter: tbrooks | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: BibFormat | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by simko):
(1) Note that people can use //Display results// selection box to select
to see up to 100 results per page; the limit of 25 is only the default one
that people can tweak.
(2) Moreover, people can manipulate `rg` (=records in groups of) argument
in the URL to download pages containing up to
`CFG_WEBSEARCH_MAX_RECORDS_IN_GROUPS` records per page. This value is set
to 200 for INSPIRE. It is not very large so that people would not
overload the server by downloading tons of stuff in one go.
(3) If people need to download more, then can add `jrec` (=jump to record)
URL argument that can display result set from a certain position, exactly
like //jump to record// selection box in the search interface is doing.
So, joining all these together, we usually advise people to do stuff like:
{{{
$ wget -O z1.xml
'http://inspirebeta.net/search?p=ellis&of=xm&jrec=1&rg=200'
$ sleep 10
$ wget -O z2.xml
'http://inspirebeta.net/search?p=ellis&of=xm&jrec=201&rg=200'
[...]
}}}
in order to get everything they want in a gentle way. However, this is
perhaps not very user friendly, and is targeted more towards the power
user type of users.
So, we can raise the visible limits from 200 to say 500 or even 1000, and
put this upper limit in the visible //Display results// box, so that
people could make selection more easily, but we should not raise it too
much, since it may affect performance.
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Ticket URL: <http://invenio-software.org/ticket/363#comment:2>
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