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Ability to choose more granular subject links and not just the entire string, as in: "Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United"

Ability to choose a section of a subject links and not just the entire string. E.g. "Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects -- United States" can only be selected as a whole, but not as individual parts, such as "Comic books, strips, etc."

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  • Katharina Wolkwitz commented  · 

    Hi everybody,

    being able to search for the single parts of the subject-chain is really nice, but paying for it with the ability to search for the complete chain as well seems a big price to pay.

    I've had a look at the pnx-record of the records in question and found that the problem seems to be in the links in the display.

    The search-terms themself are looking quite promising already:


    For a subject chains like this


    Subjects:

    Wasserdampf > Technische Anlage >

    Wasser > Strömungstechnik > Anlagenplanung >

    Brauchwasser > Wasseraufbereitung > Technische Anlage > Korrosionsschutz >

    the corresponding search-fields are:

    <subject>Wasserdampf</subject>

    <subject>Technische Anlage</subject>

    <subject>Wasser</subject>

    <subject>Strömungstechnik</subject>

    <subject>Anlagenplanung</subject>

    <subject>Brauchwasser</subject>

    <subject>Wasseraufbereitung</subject>

    <subject>Korrosionsschutz</subject>

    <subject>Wasserdampf / Technische Anlage</subject> <subject>Wasser / Strömungstechnik / Anlagenplanung</subject> <subject> Brauchwasser / Wasseraufbereitung / Technische Anlage / Korrosionsschutz </subject>

    But one can only click on the single subject-terms and there is no way to chose the chain as a whole.

    Perhaps it would be possiblen to change the display of the chain

    from

    Wasserdampf > Technische Anlage >

    to

    Wasserdampf > Technische Anlage >>

    and the ">>" contains the link to search the chain as a whole.

    What do you think?

    Kate

  • Jane Daniels commented  · 

    That's interesting & very welcome because the records that we publish to Primo are a mixture. i.e. some have FAST headings and some do not.

    If it is possible to create facets from LCSH why do we need FAST headings as separate entities?

    Jane

  • Lacey M. commented  · 

    This is really important missing functionality that is available in many other catalog systems (e.g. VuFind). In Primo/PrimoVE, our users can't fully take advantage of linked searches by subject heading because the only allowed search is on the *full* subject heading string.

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