Change Repository Search "Contains" to drop-down to enable searching "Contains Phrase", "Starts With", and "Equals"
In the repository search simple search, the only search operator you can use when searching available indexes is contains (e.g., FIND all titles WHERE title CONTAINS ____.
We would like to request that the CONTAINS operator be turned into an advanced-style dropdown menu to enable searches like this:
FIND all titles WHERE title CONTAINS PHRASE ____
FIND all titles WHERE title STARTS WITH ____
FIND all titles WHERE title EQUALS _____
In many cases, an advanced search is not required, it is simply the contains operator that needs to be modified, and performing an advanced search just to modify the contains operator is cumbersome.
Thanks for considering!
Lauren Magnuson
shared this idea
This idea was discussed with the Alam UX focused working group and it was agree it is lower priority. We will consider this request in future changes we might do in the search.
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Andrew Welch
commented
We too would like to see "DOES NOT CONTAIN" as an option in both basic and advanced search. In addition, "DOES NOT EQUAL" should be an option anytime "EQUALS" is offered.
We understand that we can combine sets, but that is a manual process. Now that there are APIs for jobs and sets, we want to be able to automate processes that cannot be replicated in analytics (like exporting electronic portfolios), and the absence of these search options prevents us from creating really useful integrations.
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Danette Seiler
commented
I would add that it would be helpful to include 'DOES NOT CONTAIN' to the drop-down, and that the drop-down be added not only to MARC fields, but also to free-text note fields as well. This would help to make up for difficulties caused by the lack of a 'NOT' Boolean operator when performing advanced searches.
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AdminDana Sharvit
(Admin, Ex Libris)
commented
With the new UX of Alma the navigation between basic and advanced search and the use of the advanced search will be streamlined.
So although special operators will not be added to the basic search the use of special operators via advanced search will not be cumbersome.
please see the Alma UX demo recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXbBSb8i-Y&feature=youtu.be