Bug 3075

Summary: return to search results on detail page
Product: Koha Reporter: Nicole C. Engard <nengard>
Component: OPACAssignee: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P5 - low CC: jwagner, katrin.fischer, oleonard, spalding
Version: master   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Chris Cormack 2010-05-21 01:06:06 UTC


---- Reported by nengard@gmail.com 2009-03-31 10:03:52 ----

The fact that you have to use the browser back button to return to search results from the detail page in the OPAC goes against most usability rules.  Can we add a link to return to search results?



---- Additional Comments From oleonard@myacpl.org 2009-03-31 12:20:00 ----

I like the idea, but I'm not sure how to accomplish it. How do we pass the last search to the detail page? A URL parameter? A session variable of some kind? Do you try to remember the last search through other steps like moving from the detail page to the MARC view?



---- Additional Comments From nengard@gmail.com 2009-03-31 15:52:46 ----

Why not just do a link that calls the javascript back function - that sends your browser back?



--- Bug imported by chris@bigballofwax.co.nz 2010-05-21 01:06 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3075 at http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3075

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Comment 1 Owen Leonard 2010-05-28 15:09:04 UTC
> The fact that you have to use the browser back button to return to search
> results from the detail page in the OPAC goes against most usability rules. 
...
> Why not just do a link that calls the javascript back function - that sends
> your browser back?

Offering a link to the user which calls history.back() seems to mask the problem that we're not leveraging any built-in method for tracking a user's last search task. What happens if I click from the normal view to the MARC view, and then I want to go back to the search results? I can click the "return to search" link, but it will end up sending me to the detail page.

And that's leaving aside the fact that a solution based on javascript isn't a universal one. 

But hey, we have an OPAC search history feature now--how can we make that work to fix this bug?
Comment 2 Nicole C. Engard 2010-05-28 19:21:50 UTC
Now we just need someone to tap into that search history to put the 'back to results' link on the bib record - because that's where patrons are looking for it :) not in 'search history'
Comment 3 Owen Leonard 2011-10-27 16:46:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6483 ***