Bug 7497

Summary: "kw,wrdl" and variants should be replaced by something more explicit in search history
Product: Koha Reporter: Gaetan Boisson <gaetan.boisson>
Component: SearchingAssignee: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: adrien.saurat, dcook, fridolin.somers, jschmidt, katrin.fischer, mathsabypro, pasi.kallinen, seif.nassor17, severine.queune
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=6985
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15434
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Description Gaetan Boisson 2012-02-03 15:28:02 UTC
A patron search history typically reads like this :

Date    Search    Results
03/02/2012 15:49:18     au,wrdl: test2     0
03/02/2012 15:49:04     se,wrdl: test     0
03/02/2012 15:48:51     nb: test     0
03/02/2012 15:47:09     kw,wrdl: tsfdfs     0
03/02/2012 15:47:01     kw,wrdl: tsfdfs     0

A more explicit list would be a nice improvement :

au,wrdl : author
se,wrdl : series
nb : isbn
kw,wrdl : (all)
ti,wrdl : title
su,wrdl : subject
callnum,wrdl : callnumber

Am i missing any ?
Comment 1 Nicole C. Engard 2012-02-26 19:44:24 UTC
There are some additional ones here: http://manual.koha-community.org/3.6/en/searching.html#searchprefixes
Comment 2 Mathieu Saby 2013-03-11 17:17:38 UTC
Adrien, are you currently working on that?
Mathieu
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2015-05-25 12:21:53 UTC
With the bootstrap opac we show the search terms again in the breadcrumbs. Libraries have reported this to be confusing - any progress on this? Or maybe some code that could be used as a starting point?
Comment 4 Fridolin Somers 2015-10-30 08:40:29 UTC
I'm not working on that, I dont even remember why I was assigned.
Feel free
Comment 5 David Cook 2015-11-01 22:30:23 UTC
Re-writing the search history sounds like a very bad idea to me.

If we want to have a more explicit list in the search history, it would be a better idea to change the qualifiers/aliases used in the Advanced Search and the masthead search. 

That way, the search history (and the search result pages) would be more user-friendly, but we wouldn't be re-writing anything. This also means advanced users would have their queries stored in the search history unaltered. As an advanced user, it would make me happy not to have my searches mangled after the fact.

Honestly, changing the qualifiers/aliases used in the Advanced Search and masthead search to something more user-friendly might actually lower the barrier to entry for people who see things like "au" and "wrdl" in the code and get intimidated.
Comment 6 David Cook 2015-11-01 22:31:04 UTC
P.S. That's not me saying that I want to work on this though :p.
Comment 7 paxed 2015-11-02 10:22:33 UTC
...And whoever works on this, also remember to consider translation.

(These cryptic search prefixes are one of the things both patrons and staff have complained about...)
Comment 8 Katrin Fischer 2016-01-18 22:37:34 UTC
Not for the search history yet, but please see bug 15434 for a solution for the breadcrumbs.