Bug 17176

Summary:	Did you mean searches should respect UseAuthoritiesForTracings and search by terms instead of numbers
Product:	Koha	Reporter:	Nick Clemens (kidclamp) <nick>
Component:	Searching	Assignee:	Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Testopia <testopia>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5 - low	CC:	ephetteplace
Version:	Main
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Nick Clemens (kidclamp) 2016-08-24 00:24:58 UTC

In catalogs where some authorities may not be linked it would be beneficial to have 'Did you mean?' searches constructed with terms rather than authority numbers as the latter can result in dead links.  

Alternatively 'Did you mean?' shouldn't suggest unused authorities

Comment 1 Eric Phetteplace 2017-11-27 23:48:07 UTC

Bumping this issue. This has a negative user experience impact for us because some of the "did you mean" results are authority records that aren't used in any of our bibs—so the "did you mean" links to an empty result set, which is confusing and frustrating. It'd be better to not allow suggestions that have no associated bib records.