Bug 41272 - Authority modal search results needs table settings and sort
Summary: Authority modal search results needs table settings and sort
Status: NEW
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Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Cataloging (show other bugs)
Version: 25.05
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low enhancement
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2025-11-19 16:32 UTC by Esther Melander
Modified: 2025-11-21 20:17 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of the authority search popup (213.30 KB, image/png)
2025-11-21 12:47 UTC, Owen Leonard
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Authority pop up with no highlighted pages past 15 (40.48 KB, image/png)
2025-11-21 13:23 UTC, lhilleary
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Description Esther Melander 2025-11-19 16:32:00 UTC
To replicate:

Find a bibliographic record, edit, and do an authority lookup for a heading. Try to do a search for an authority where there could be a lot of potential results. Notice the table of results in the modal can't be sorted or searched easily. The user has to page through the results. If the search results has many pages, it's difficult to know which page the user is on. If the number of the page was styled to be in bold, it would help the user know their location in the results.

It would help to add the option to sort the columns of the table and to style the page number display, highlighting the page in bold.
Comment 1 Owen Leonard 2025-11-21 12:47:43 UTC
Created attachment 189840 [details]
Screenshot of the authority search popup

Are you talking about the pop-up window triggered from the basic MARC editor? If so I don't see the page number highlighting problem you describe.
Comment 2 lhilleary 2025-11-21 13:23:12 UTC
Created attachment 189841 [details]
Authority pop up with no highlighted pages past 15
Comment 3 lhilleary 2025-11-21 13:23:31 UTC
Yes, the pop up window is limited when it comes to an authority search with a lot of results. When we do Women Fiction for example, once you get to page 15, there are still over 1,000 results and once you hit Next, you can no longer see the page highlighted that you're on or navigate to page (see attachment above); you have to keep clicking Next. One solution suggested was limited by switching from the default "contains" to "starts with" or "is exactly" which does lessen the results, but our cataloging team has reported that this has been time consuming and inefficient compared to the authority workflow in our previous ILS. I think of the two issues here -- pages highlighted versus the ability to sort -- the latter would be the preference. If they could sort based on number of matches, that would reduce many of the issues they're having here.
Comment 4 Owen Leonard 2025-11-21 13:59:06 UTC
(In reply to lhilleary from comment #3)
> once you get to page 15...and once you hit Next, you can no
> longer see the page highlighted

Ah, that's the missing information. I do see that.
Comment 5 Phil Ringnalda 2025-11-21 20:17:51 UTC
The pagination bar is bug 16910.