Collection Discovery: search in all sub-collections
We would like to allow the user to use the Collection Discovery interface also for discovery. Currently, it is only possible to search at the collection level. It is important to enabling a search across all levels of all collections as the user cannot know in which collection/sub-collections to search for needed items.
Following are a couple of user stories:
* We have various collections of photos. We would like to allow the user to search across the various collections and sub-collections for the pictures of the Knossos temple. We have relevant photos in two different sub-collections.
* We would like to allow the user to search across the various collections and sub-collections for the pictures of the Kabara Swamps. We have photos in various sub-collections that are 3 folder levels down from the Collection Discovery Home Page.
We are not providing users option to search across All Collections from the Collection Lobby and also users are being prompt to expand search to all collections from a specific Collection page.
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Mike McConnell commented
Hi Nili. I was pleased to read this. Have you any idea when this functionality might be available? Thanks, Mike
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C Macarthur commented
We would like to see this introduced as at the moment the way searching is currently presented to the end user is very misleading as it is limited to only one level below within each collection level.
Either introduce a whole collection level search across all collections or allow customisation to remove the search collection box from the top level collections and have it only visible within each sub-collection when you get to the bottom level.
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Maya Amichal commented
It would be great if this could be included also for "custom local search scope" when creating a scope based on "Is Part of collection/sub-collection". Currently, it takes only the specific collection content and disregards the sub-collections under it.
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Manu Schwendener commented
Roadmap for 2020: "Dynamic suggestion to expand search to items lower in the hierarchy
within other sub-collections"(PDF link on https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Materials/Roadmap)
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Tim Graves commented
I would second this idea. Colleagues have flagged the current behaviour as less-than-satisfactory while setting up some new collections.
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Manu Schwendener commented
+1