On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Ludmila Marian wrote: > I think advanced search was needed historically in order too be able > to join together different types of searches: regex and exact phrase > search or partial phrase and all-of-the-words, etc. Meanwhile, simple > search has evolved and, as you are saying, there is nothing advanced > search can do, that simple search can not reproduce.
Yes. The main reason was the fact that Simple Search did not originally support nested parentheses; it was doing left-to-right inclusion or exclusion of search terms. So one could not express all queries that Advanced Search could in Simple Search. > To overcome this, and also to keep happy the users that prefer > advanced search, we proposed another search interface, called > add-to-search (you might remember it from the Invenio workshop): the > users will have the possibility of using the advanced search format to > compose a more complicated query in the simple search Live preview at <http://invenio-demo-next.cern.ch/>. Best regards -- Tibor Simko
