Bug 23481

Summary:	Refine Search button does not perform as expected
Product:	Koha	Reporter:	Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrew>
Component:	OPAC	Assignee:	Owen Leonard <oleonard>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Testopia <testopia>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5 - low	CC:	nick
Version:	Main
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23492
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Description Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2019-08-20 16:56:45 UTC

On the OPAC search results page, there's a link above the facets that says "Refine your search." One can click this link to toggle display of the facets on and off. This is less than helpful.

When teaching Koha to new librarians, they generally assume that "Refine your search" will instead take them to the advanced search page populated with the search they've just performed so that they can easily refine or adjust the search and perform it over again.

I'd love to see the existing link changed from its current functionality to this expected use.

Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2019-08-20 17:01:40 UTC

I think it's nice that we can hide the facets this way sometimes - especially thinking about mobile view too. Maybe relabeling it would be another option?

Comment 2 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2019-08-20 19:01:41 UTC

I'm totally prepared to accept that there's a use case for this I haven't run into, but a relabel would be great.

Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2019-08-20 19:07:29 UTC

Can you think of sometihng that would work better?

The label is about the facets below - but facets might ont be something users understand as a term?

Comment 4 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2019-08-20 20:47:13 UTC

Maybe just have it say "Hide Options" when the facets are showing and "Show Options" when the facets are hidden?

Comment 5 Owen Leonard 2019-08-21 16:55:22 UTC

I think "Refine your search" is an accurate label for the functionality the facets provide.

Comment 6 Nick Clemens (kidclamp) 2019-08-21 18:04:04 UTC

(In reply to Owen Leonard from comment #5)
> I think "Refine your search" is an accurate label for the functionality the
> facets provide.

I can agree with this, but the link is not obviously an expand/hide link

I think adding squares like bug 23385 would clarify, and maybe a hover text "Click to show facets"/"Click to hide facets"

and if going crazy, a text underneath:
Select facets below to narrow your search

A separate functionality to edit and repeat your search would be ideal, but probably its own bug

Comment 7 Owen Leonard 2019-08-21 18:08:08 UTC

(In reply to Nick Clemens from comment #6)
> I can agree with this, but the link is not obviously an expand/hide link

Nor does it need to be, in my opinion. Clicking/tapping the link provides options for refining the search.
 
> I think adding squares like bug 23385 would clarify, and maybe a hover text
> "Click to show facets"/"Click to hide facets"

Hover text won't be seen if the user is on mobile, which is one of the most common times the facets column will be collapsed.

> A separate functionality to edit and repeat your search would be ideal, but
> probably its own bug

We do have a "Return to the last advanced search" link already on search results. Perhaps it should appear always, not just when coming from an advanced search.

Comment 8 Owen Leonard 2019-08-22 16:50:47 UTC

I have submitted a patch for Bug 23492 prompted by this discussion.

I don't know that it is a solution to this bug, but I think it will alleviate some of the confusion about the purpose of the "Refine your search" heading.

Comment 9 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2019-08-23 14:04:35 UTC

Poking at Owen's patch on 23492 and looking at how this feature looks/works on mobile, it makes a lot more sense. I'm gonna just call this a dupe of 23492 and think about filing something else for the other half of my gripe on this ticket. Thanks all!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23492 ***