Re: [IUG] Possible to get rid of WebPacPro?

[Steve Sowder <sowder at andrews dot edu>]

Good point. For WebPacPro.

We are used to Encore which doesn't make a suggestion unless it is in 
the database.


Steve
sowder at andrews dot edu

On 8/30/2010 1:19 PM, Boggs, John wrote:
> Maybe because the spell checker doesn't ensure that the suggestions it's giving are actually in the database before making them?  So you get weird situations where you do a search for something and get several results, but the spell checker says, "Perhaps you meant ______."  Then when you go to search ______ you get ZERO results.  It's confusing for the patrons and not really useful.
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> That's a good reason not to use the spell checker.  (Though we do, still, use it here.)
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> John D. Boggs, PLAN Database Manager
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> Why would you turn off Spell Checker?
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> Steve
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> On 8/28/2010 8:13 AM, Paul Hamilton wrote:
> > With apologies in regard to my earlier response. . . it was Spell Checker which we had III turn off shortly after going live with WebPAC Pro. My confusion stemmed from the fact that there are staff here at Western who also lean towards having Right Results turned off. But it was Spell Checker which we removed.
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> > On 10.08.27, Cheryl dot Armstrong at SFGOV dot ORG wrote:
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> > There is a desire by some at my library to get rid of Right Results
> > altogether, which I believe would mean getting rid of WebPACPro.Is tHave any of your institutions done this?CherSystems Manager and Head of Technical ServicesSan F401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 400San Franciscocheryl dot Armstrong at sfgov dot org415-554-6832-- dangerous content by Maibelieved to be clean.--- Strimultipart/alternative  text/html-----
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