Re: wrinkle in home page search box

[Margaret Peloquin <peloquin at austincc dot edu>]

We are also on Silver but do not appear to be having the problems you 
are with trucation.  I used the same terms you spoke of below and got 
the proper results. --Margaret

Karen Perone wrote:

> An update to all and an answer to Jim. First, thank you for the 
> suggestions on fixing my search, but alas, those didn't work. What I 
> ended up doing was copying the keyword search widget from one of the 
> internal pages to the library home page. The AVS keyword searching 
> uses javascript. That seemed to do the trick.
>
> As for Jim's question, yes, we too are having truncated keyword search 
> problems and have an open call on it. It seems strange that a search 
> for "tutan**" yields nothing, but a search on "tut**" yields hits for 
> King Tut and Tutankhamen.
>
> In addition to getting "No hits" results for the searches he mentions 
> below, we are also getting "No hits" for the infamous "wom?n" search 
> although we can search "woman OR women" and get many results.
>
> Anyone else seeing these kinds of results? We're on Silver.
> --Karen
>
> Mann, James H. wrote:
>
> > Karen
> > Can you do the following keyword searches in your catalog please:
> > tutan** and  cath** I don't mean to bother the whole list, but I've 
> > got this perception that
> > there may be something wrong with keyword searching that's beyond just
> > my catalog.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jim Mann
> > Technology Coordinator
> > Greene County Public Library
> > Xenia Ohio 45385
> > (937) 376-2996 x210
> > mailto: jmann at gcpl dot lib dot oh dot us
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
> > [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Karen Perone
> > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:41 PM
> > To: innopac
> > Subject: wrinkle in home page search box
> >
> > We have been using a "Search the Catalog" option on our library's 
> > home page for quite awhile but have only just discovered a Keyword 
> > search problem that I can't quite figure out.
> >
> >  From our home page, http://www.rodmanlibrary.com do a keyword search 
> > for "neck pain" without the quotes. The hits number 181. If you click 
> > the next page button, it shows "Keywords 13-24 of 181" but, there are NO
> >
> > results shown and the same for subsequent pages.
> >
> > If the same search is done from the catalog's main menu, 
> > http://roc.rodmanlibrary.com or any of the search widgets within the 
> > catalog, then there are only 7 hits and all display.
> >
> > The problem only occurs with the keyword search. We are using the "Y" 
> > search. I suspect this may be the culprit.
>
>
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