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Re: [VuFind-Tech] How to limit to multiple formats
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From: Erik M. <mit...@wf...> - 2010-03-12 14:14:58
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Thanks all :). E Erik Mitchell, Ph.D. Assistant Director for Technology Services Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University mit...@wf... 336.655.5290 On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Demian Katz <dem...@vi...> wrote: You actually can get away with putting an OR within the filter query itself: http://vufind.org/demo/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=AllFields&filter[]=format%3A%22VHS%22+OR+%22DVD%22<http://vufind.org/demo/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=AllFields&filter%5b%5d=format%3A%22VHS%22+OR+%22DVD%22> The resulting "Remove Filters" display is a little glitchy with regard to how it renders quotes, but it's comprehensible, and the quote issue could probably be cleaned up in the template; functionally, it seems to achieve the desired effect. As for future improvements to the facet UI, it's definitely on the table. Here's the JIRA ticket: http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-177 No timeline or specific plan on this, but I definitely want to see it happen eventually; feel free to add comments to the ticket in the meantime if you have thoughts on the matter. - Demian *From:* Greg Pendlebury [mailto:gre...@gm...] *Sent:* Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:58 PM *To:* Mitchell, Erik *Cc:* vuf...@li... *Subject:* Re: [VuFind-Tech] How to limit to multiple formats Hi Erik, Something like this might work: http://vufind.zsr.wfu.edu/Search/Home?lookfor=cats%20AND%20%28format:%22CD%22%20OR%20format:%22DVD%22%29&type=all&filter[]=format:%22Electronic%22&submit=Find<http://vufind.zsr.wfu.edu/Search/Home?lookfor=cats%20AND%20%28format:%22CD%22%20OR%20format:%22DVD%22%29&type=all&filter%5b%5d=format:%22Electronic%22&submit=Find> The problem is you want multiple formats and are using the filter field to get them. All filters are implicitly AND'd. Adding the the parameters as an OR query in the search field gets you the results you want... but it looks uglier, and isn't in the facet UI any more. I recall some discussion a while ago regarding making facets more powerful like this (so that users could tick multiple facets), but I'm not sure where it went. I suspect it was in the 'too hard' basket for now. When I was at the USQ Library we added tiers like 'format' and 'subformat' to solve the problem in a different way, so the format 'Book' had subformats 'Printed Book' and 'eBook' : http://libcat.usq.edu.au/Search/Home?lookfor=&type=all&submit=Find&filter[]=format:%22Book%22<http://libcat.usq.edu.au/Search/Home?lookfor=&type=all&submit=Find&filter%5b%5d=format:%22Book%22> It's not as flexible since we had to index in a specific way and tweak facet display, but there aren't that many areas where this was used anyway, book/ebook and vhs/dvd are the only ones that spring to mind. Hope that helps, Greg On 12 March 2010 06:54, Mitchell, Erik <mit...@wf...> wrote: Hi all, We are writing a scoped search box for our website and want to limit the search to a few different formats (so that the search returns books and ebooks but not journal articles). I tried working with some variations on the advanced search screen but could not write a URL that worked for basic search. My closest attempt was: http://vufind.zsr.wfu.edu/Search/Home?lookfor=cats&type=all&filter[]=format<http://vufind.zsr.wfu.edu/Search/Home?lookfor=cats&type=all&filter%5b%5d=format> :"CD"&filter[]=format:"DVD"&filter[]=format:"Electronic"&submit=Find Has anyone done something like this? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Mitchell, Ph.D. Assistant Director for Technology Services Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University http://erikmitchell.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Vufind-tech mailing list Vuf...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech |