RE: Passing (pre-populating) advanced keyword search page

["Ann Kebabian" <akebabian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl--
Our public services folk are quite interested in your method of passing
info from the 'quickie' screen to the full AKS screen.  The wondered,
though, if you are on Rel. 2002 Phase 3 yet, and if so, if there were
any problems with this method when you upgraded.

Hope you had a good summer.  Perhaps I'll see you before the IUG -- we
never did get organized for a cataloging statistics program, did we?  Oh
well, certainly not this year with what I've got on my plate!

Regards, ann

Ann Kebabian
Head of Cataloging
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
Phone: 315-228-7309
Fax: 315-228-7934
Email: akebabian@xxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Fattig [mailto:kfattig@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:06 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Passing (pre-populating) advanced keyword search page

First, Sara Amato is the resourceful person who actually brought this to

fruition here, with involvement from our Online Public Interface Group 
(OPIG). I should have mentioned that in the earlier email.

We are curious about your question though. Since our script merely 
passes the search (modified or not) on to the innopac server, 
theoretically it shouldn't introduce any problems of its own. Unless, of

course there were major changes to the values in the form... but we are 
aware of this.

We would like to know more about the kinds of problems others were 
reporting with their quick search forms.

We have only had this up for a couple of weeks, but it has been getting 
use... with no reports of patrons being disadvantaged or error messages.

Karl



Howard Pasternack wrote:
> Karl and Bowdoin are to be once again commended for creativity!  I
have 
> a question about this which others might be interested in.  It has
been 
> discussed several times on this list that a quick search form needs to

> have more or less the same html coding as the results screen or
problems 
> may result with follow-on searches.  We discovered this here at Brown 
> and several others posted "why is my form doing this" messages all of 
> which got more or less the same answer.  Bowdoin is clearly departing 
> from this model.  Are there any unusual events which occur when a user

> does some follow-on searching or paging through the results.  --
Howard
>

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