Re: lRe: Question on Enhancements- MI15

[Elizabeth Thomsen <et@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, thanks for checking on this.  We do use the existing searches 
frequently, but of course, there has to already be a search there for us 
to use it, so it's not at all the same thing as saved searches, which 
lets you save the criteria for a search without actually using one of 
the review files.  On the rare occasions when we use saved searches, we 
don't normally use the saved searches tab either-- I only mentioned it 
because I was trying to be thorough on what we were seeing on our system.

As for having people put their initials and date on each saved search, 
we could do that, but this is one of those things that it's much better 
to have the system do than to expect people to do accurately and 
consistently, and it's hardly worth the effort since we can't sort the 
list and can't take ownership of the saved searches, the way we can take 
ownership of review files.  It just seems like III needs to move all the 
improvements they've made to the list of files, which we love, over to 
the Saved Searches.

Again, thanks for asking about this and for checking on the answer. 
It's hard going through all these enhancement requests, and it's easy to 
misunderstand quite what an enhancement is for or why it's needed, so I 
think getting this kind of clarification on the list is a good idea.

> Okay, now I see what you are doing and you are right, the initials and 
> sort option isn't there on the Save Search tab and it might be useful. 
> I'd never really noticed that Save Searches Tab. I've always used saved 
> searches through the "Use Exisiting Search" option. With that you can 
> edit searches so I'm not seeing a lot of use for the Save Search tab 
> since you can't run the search from there. I just tried it and using the 
> "use exisiting search" option if you pick the wrong one you just choose 
> "use existing search" again and pick another one. You aren't stuck with 
> the first search you pick which would be the other reason to use the 
> Save Search tab.
> 
> Of course as a work around for your site you could require people put 
> their initials and/or date at the beginning of each search name. Then 
> you could "just save searches that we want to run every month and click 
> on them"  by using the "use existing search" option. That is the 
> requirement here but we've always been a character based system. It may 
> fade away as we move to Millennium which automatically includes the 
> initials and dates. I go through periodically and delete any that don't 
> have initials after warning people to check their lists. That's how we 
> keep the lists current because of course we all forget about ones we 
> created to solve a particular problem, meaning to delete quickly.
> 
> Sue Boggs
> Cataloging & Library Technician
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