Re: More on the avs search

["Robert F. Rapp" <rfrapp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Zhou, Don" wrote:

> Hi, David:
>
> When I set this up, I set the adj.search to yes. Meaning if you want to
> use the new functionality, the assumption is that you do not want the
> system to automatically and things.
>
> To nest search terms, given this new functionality, you can use the near
> and within in that one box to achieve the result of (x and y) or z,
> except that the "and" is now near or within.
>
> I did not test it on nets 4. but glad that you found the bug.
>
> Don Zhou
> William Mitchell College of Law
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fuller [mailto:fullerd@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: More on the avs search
>
> Don, et.al,
>
> We've (Union College) also taken advantage of the new keyword search
> form
> Innovative has
> provided with release 3 but have noticed that it presents a few
> problems.
> http://libraryopac.union.edu/screens/srchhelp_X.html
>
> One is that the functionality is provided via javascript and the coding
> isn't supported on all
> browsers.  In particular IE on the Mac, and versions of Netscape 4.x
> don't
> respond when
> one clicks the Search button.  Of course no one *should* be using
> Netscape
> 4.x but that's beyond
> our control.  I've traced this problem to a single javascript function
> "encodeURI".  If this line is
> commented out the form will work...but buyer beware...I'm not entirely
> sure
> what negative impact
> this might have on your searching.
>

Actually, *WE* use Netscape 4.80 in house, for a variety of reasons, including
security and the fact that WinSelect did not support v6 or higher (and may still
not, I have not checked since their merger with another company).

The search button works fine; the results, however, are composed of the little
boxes that indicate incorrect encoding.  Works fine in IE (ugh), but at this time I
cannot move to that.

Rob

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verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.
-Heinrich Heine

Robert F. Rapp
Systems Operations Librarian
Menomonee Falls Public Library
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