Summary: | Add exact search option for patrons | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrew> |
Component: | Patrons | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | anni.maki-mantila, emmi.takkinen, gmcharlt, kati.sillgren, kebliss, kyle.m.hall, lmstrand |
Version: | Main | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17500 | ||
Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
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Description
Andrew Fuerste-Henry
2022-04-13 19:12:40 UTC
+1 I would love this. This would be very useful! Maybe the search could be "exact" by default. If only one partial match was found, the partial match should not be viewed directly in moremember.pl, but in a list view as they would if more than one match was found (members-home.pl search result list view). The list view could be clearly stating "Only partial matches found:" to underline the fact than no exact hits were found if there was just one or more than one partial hit. Just the functionality to not take the user to a partial match's detail page would result in less errors when finding patrons with similar names. Having an exact search option would be helpful for big databases, but I am not sure making it the default will work well. Ideally maybe we could "rank" exact results higher or leave the choice for default to the library. Names are handled differently in countries, often being composed from multiple parts, so search behavior might vary quite a bit. |