Re: [IUG] Forcing a browse display when you have an exact author match - NEW INFO!

["Strouse, Mary" <STROUSE at law dot edu>]

I've stumbled upon yet another undocumented change in Rel. 2007 that
might address David's original concern.  The BRIEF= wwwoption now
accepts additional values, including the U value (indexed title) that
the manual describes under the EXTENDED= WWWOption. (code page #106872).
I found this because the default setting in the 2007 example set
WWWoptions file is BRIEF=UR.  

 

Enabling BRIEF=U has the consequence that an author search will show the
indexed title (say a chapter title), unlinked, next to the indexed term
on the first line of the index browse.  If you switch to extended
browse, you get the book title, linked, on the below.

 

In our catalog, search for author = smith.
http://columbo.law.cua.edu/search/a?SEARCH=smith  Then click on
"extended display" to see the whole thing. 

 

This setting has the same effect in other phrase indexes besides title.
In a subject index, this means that if only one book matches the
heading, the title will display next to the index heading.  Of course,
limiting or choosing a non-system sort sends you into a record browse,
which uses the briefcit display.

 

So is this tres cool or hopelessly confusing? I'm really not sure.  

 

Mary

 

Mary M. Strouse

Head of Technical Services

Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library

Catholic University of America

202-319-5547

FAX 202-319-4447

strouse at law dot cua dot edu

 

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of David Jones
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:29 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: [IUG] Forcing a browse display when you have an exact
authormatch

 

>>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at  7:59 AM, Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>
wrote: 

> need to be.)  What's new about T in Release 2007 is that it has super 

> powers when a *title search* results in a record browse---the 

> searched for title *and* the 245 are displayed.

 

Dang. I was hoping that the magic "T" was going to work regardless of
which phrase index you searched, negating the need for the extra lines
for the 245 in the briefcit.html file...

 

Thanks for the clarification!

 

David

 

 

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