Re: Media icons in the index display screen

["Karl Beiser" <beiser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jill,

Title searches retrieve title headings.  If more than one heading 
matches the search string, a heading browse results.  Headings often, 
though not always, represent multiple individual bib records -- 
doubtless of several media types.  Hence, it makes no sense to 
display a medium indication next to a heading.  

Only when one has selected a specific heading with more than one bib 
associated with it do we get a browse of actual titles pulled from 
each bib record. At this level medium is meaningful.

Of course, this reasoning is not obvious in cases where multiple 
headings are displayed, each representing a single bib, or where the 
search string uniquely matches a single heading and the user is 
dropped directly into the title browse for that heading...

Regards,

Karl
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Karl Beiser, Library Systems Coordinator
Maine State Library
POB 2145
Bangor, ME 04402
beiser@xxxxxxxxxx
tel:207-581-1656; fax: 207-581-1653; pager: 207-750-0330
http://www.maine.gov/msl/
On 27 Aug 2003 at 14:32, Jill Ellern wrote:

> I'm not sure if this might not be an enhancement request or a wwwoptions
> setting.  We already have media set for the browse display...but folks
> are having problems understanding why it doesn't display all the 
time a
> browse (index, brief or extended).
> 
> Is there a wwoption i'm missing...
> 
> gde
> 
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> 
> Jill,
> I would like for media icons to display in the index display for 
single
> hits that match my search term.
> Now only the grouped  multiple hits display icons because they are
> viewed singly in the browse display. Can we have media icons in the
> index display for the single hits?.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hiddy
> 
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