I was looking up Indian cooking books and we catalog all our international cook books by 641.59 and the country name, in this case India. So, I found an Indian cook book, clicked on the call number which did an automatic call number search and listed all our Indian cook books in that call number. I tried to rank the results by pubdate, newest first and was booted back to the search screen with the following URL: /cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?q%3Dccl=callnum%3A641.59+INDIA&sort_by=pubdate_dsc Doing an advanced search in the staff client for call number sorted by publication date works just fine though - with the following URL: /cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl?idx=callnum&q=641.59+INDIA&op=and&idx=kw&op=and&idx=kw&sort_by=pubdate_dsc
I have tested today on 3.6.4 and I still find that sorting by publication date is not showing correct results. See attached.
Created attachment 8063 [details] search results not sorted right
Hi Nicole, I think the sorting uses the normalized publication year in 008, pos 07-10 - Date 1. Have you checked if the values there make sense of the sorting? Perhaps the date is not filled?
Katrin you are right and I was wrong about the staff being sorted right - it's not.