Bug 22230 - Make SearchWithISBNVariations search in index keyword
Summary: Make SearchWithISBNVariations search in index keyword
Status: NEW
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Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: System Administration (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2019-01-29 19:57 UTC by Patrick Robitaille
Modified: 2019-06-21 15:12 UTC (History)
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Description Patrick Robitaille 2019-01-29 19:57:23 UTC
Hi, 

the SearchWithISBNVariations system preference does not search for variants in the index keyword (kw, wrdl). It is imperative to use the ISBN index (nb) for this kind of search. It would be nice if this system preference makes it possible to search the ISBN variants in the index keyword as well.

Thanks, Patrick
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2019-01-29 20:33:02 UTC
Hi Patrick, can you explain your use case?

I think it could pose problems in some use cases. As the 7xx and 8xx fields can also contain ISBNs for the records they link to, you'd potentially end up with a lot more records as result.
Comment 2 Patrick Robitaille 2019-01-30 18:41:21 UTC
Hello Katrin,

When scanning a document with the barcode, we would like to avoid having to choose the ISBN index to get a search that also shows the variantions of this ISBN. That ISBNs in 7xx and 8xx come out with this research on ISBN variations does not seem a problem for us, on the contrary. Most of the time we have the ISBNs of the other versions of the documents. So if these documents are retrieved by research, that's what we want. For us, it would allow us to see that we have the same document but in another format.

thanks, Patrick.
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2019-01-30 18:57:59 UTC
I assume the problem why this was not done before is that you'd have to look at each and every search entered and try to verify if it contains something that looks like an ISBN. I am not sure if this kind of processing could impact performance?
Comment 4 Katrin Fischer 2019-01-30 18:58:46 UTC
If we do it, we could have multiple options for the pref maybe to determine behaviour in different spots.
Comment 5 Patrick Robitaille 2019-01-31 14:30:49 UTC
Hi Katrin, 

This could be a field in which we could enter the field dedicated to the search for ISBN variations. In this way, the different libraries could decide whether or not to search for variants in ill the field or to limit the search to particular field. Thus, we could make sure that this search is done in the index keyword.

Thanks, Patrick.