Bug 7777

Summary: Having only one text field for the serials search
Product: Koha Reporter: Adrien SAURAT <adrien.saurat>
Component: SerialsAssignee: Adrien SAURAT <adrien.saurat>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Ian Walls <koha.sekjal>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low    
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Adrien SAURAT 2012-03-21 10:55:52 UTC
Created attachment 8399 [details]
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All search fields are unique except in the Serials module.
Here we have a ISSN field, and a Title field.

The search is performed by the GetSubscriptions in C4/Serials.pm.
The string typed in the Title zone is compared to the following fields:
biblio.title
subscription.callnumber
subscription.location
subscription.notes 
subscription.internalnotes

The string typed in the ISSN field is compared to:
biblioitems.issn
subscription.callnumber (again!)

The differences are not very significant, and the text accompanying the fields (saying just ISSN and Title) are not consistent with the actual search process.

It would then probably be simpler to use only one input field, like it's done for other searches in Koha. We could do something closer to the "Search the Catalog" tab. Only one field, and a text saying "Enter search keywords:"
Comment 1 Adrien SAURAT 2012-09-21 08:03:26 UTC
Seeing that this search zone now has 3 fields (EAN added), I guess reducing from 2 to 1 was not the way to go. I close this.