Re: [VuFind-Tech] No Results Search Suggestion

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

The message about wildcards actually comes from a module that allows several different configurable suggestions for no-hit results. It makes sense to add fuzzy search as another possibility there, and then we can allow users to decide whether to display just one of these messages, or both. I'll try to find time to put this in before too long. Thanks for the suggestion!

- Demian

-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Ruscheinski [mailto:joh...@un...] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 4:35 AM
To: vuf...@li...
Subject: [VuFind-Tech] No Results Search Suggestion

Hi,

Today I had a look at what happens when there is a search in VuFind and no results are found.  A new query is being offered using the asterisk as a wildcard character.  I am wondering how people feel about replacing this with a tilde for a fuzyy search?  Personally I think that might be more useful as it can frequently be that people mistyped something accidentally or that they simply do not know the correct spelling.  In believe that in both cases a tilde would be more helpful.

--Johannes

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