Search configuration

Search Config Blocks

All searches (except for the Advanced search) are configured in the same way and have their own Config Block, e.g.

• g_tiau - title/author search
• g_kws2 - keyword search
• g_subject - subject search

1. To view these go to OPAC> Configuration Settings.
2. Search for searchfields.
3. Click the Setting link to view details.

For example the searchfields array in g_kws2 has a single entry:

The Value field holds the search input field and it’s label (any words after the 1st space are the label). The Value 2 field holds the hover text and the Value 3 field holds the infield help text.

For example, if you remove the text from the Value 3 field then the search box will not include any infield help text.

The Title/Author search is a little different as it has 2 entries in the searchfields array because it has 2 search fields: title and author.

Default sort

You can configure a default sort order for each search option if required. The default sort order for the hitlist is defined by configuration settings in the g_title_hitlist config block:

• def_sort1
• def_sort2

1. To view these go to OPAC> Configuration Settings.
2. Choose Configuration Settings by Config Block to search.
3. Enter Config Block: g_title_hitlist; Setting: def_sort.

The Value fields of these settings are set to "tia" and "aua" as standard.

Immediate display of search fields

You can configure Folio so that the fields available in the drop down are displayed immediately when the Advanced search is selected.

Choose which of these 4 searches are shown and the order in which they are displayed. By default Folio is configured with just the original Keyword search. To add more searches for immediate display:

1. Go to OPAC> Configuration Files and search by Configuration Settings by Config Block.
2. Search on Config Block: g_adv; Setting: searchfields_display to show this array.

By default, only "keyword" has Include?=Yes.

3. Click the e.g. "name Author" setting to display the details:

4. In modify mode set Include=Yes.
5. Change Sequence 2 if you need to change the order the search is displayed.

Configure the Title option (Advanced search) to be a keyword search

By default, the Title option in the Advanced search, searches on the first few words of the Title. You can change this so that Folio searches on keywords - for example in the Title, Subtitle and Alternative Title fields.

To do this, you enter a specific keyword index into the searchfields array setting.

For example:

• Keyword Index 2 indexes the title, subtitle and normalised title
• Keyword Index 3 indexes the author surname, forename, initials, corporate author, subordinate unit and composite name fields

Using OLIB Web, configure the Advanced search form to replace the second Folio search input field (which defaults to Title) with the keywords2 search:

1. Go to OPAC> Configuration Settings.
2. Use Configuration Settings by Config Block to search for Config Block: g_adv; Setting: searchfields:

604134    1    g_adv    searchfields    "keywords2 Keywords in Title"    23    2    Y

3. Modify this g_adv setting containing Seq.2=2 (the one with "title Title" in the Value field).
4. Set Value to "keywords2 Keywords in Title".
5. Optionally, change Value 2 (hover text) and Value 3 (in-field text prompt) to something appropriate.
6. Save your changes.

Changes take effect when you reload Folio. In the Advanced search, when the user enters their terms into Keywords in Title, Folio searches for them in the Title, Subtitle and Alternative Title fields.

Titles by subject

By default Folio executes a Titles by Subject search when the user enters a Subject search. This is a list of titles linked to the subject heading that matches the search.

Subject headings search

If preferred you can change the Subject search to display the Subject Headings instead:

Edit the authority_file_search setting:

1. Go to OPAC> Configuration Settings.
2. Search for authority_file_search.
3. Click to display the details and set Include=Yes.

Value should remain set to true for this to take effect.
Refresh Folio to implement the change.

Limit subject types

By default, Folio displays all subject headings, regardless of the Subject Type. If you would like to limit the subject headings to a specific Subject Type, you need to configure the pre_filt_subjtp setting. This setting determines which subject types are included in a subject authority file search. To configure pre_filt_subjtp:

1. Go to OPAC> Configuration Settings.
2. Search for pre_filt_subjtp.
3. In Value, enter a semi-colon separated list of Subject Type key IDs, beginning and ending with a semi-colon e.g. ;SUBJ;BULL;. The subject authority file search will be limited to those subjects with one of the listed subject types.
4. Set Include = Yes.

 Note: if pre_filt_subj is not "included", or if it is included and Value is set to “;;”, all subjects will be included in the subject authority file search.

Display

The settings in the configuration block g_subject_hitlist specify what is included in the subjects hitlist:

The s_hitlist array specifies which columns are displayed. Only two options are currently available for this array: subject and titlecnt.

The l_subject and l_numtitles settings specify the text to be used for these respective column headers. Open in modify mode to change the text.

Include series titles

1. Go to OPAC> Configuration Settings.
2. Search include_series_titles.
3. Modify the record and set Value = "Y" (include Series titles) or "N" (exclude Series titles). Include double quotes.
4. Check that the Include field is set to Yes.

Changes take effect when you next reload Folio.

Create new config block

Create a new config block with a name that matches g_kws_xxxx. "xxxx" can be any mnemonic, e.g. tauth to represent a search in the Title/Author index.

1. Go to OPAC> OPAC Config Block.
2. Click New Record.
3. Enter details:

Create new configuration settings

The new settings below all belong in the new configuration block, e.g. g_kws_tauth.

Create each setting as follows:

1. Go to OPAC> Configuration Settings.
2. Click New Record.
3. Enter details for each of the settings as shown in the examples below -

Create searchfields setting:
Add a searchfields setting to specify which search fields should be displayed when the search option is selected.

Value 1 is the actual search field and must be one of - title, name, keywords, subject, isbn, classmark, ctrl or note10. After a space you can add a label for the search box.

Value 2 is the hover text.

 
Create keyword search facets array:
Create kws_xxxx_facets settings with Values for, e.g. media type "mtp", publication date "pdate", location "loc". Here is an example for "mtp":

 
Create fb_sidebar_header

This displays some text at the top of the facets sidebar when the search option is selected, e.g:

• Refine your search by:-

Create fb_header_mtp
Create fb_header_mtp settings to display some text at the top of the facet blocks, e.g:

• Format
• Publication
• Copy location
• Author

Create a keyword_indexno setting
This is to represent the keyword index to be searched in Folio.

In the Value field add a number in double quotes. E.g. "4" is to search in OLIB's Keyword Index 4 (the title and author keyword index):

Create the new search in Folio's Search Options box:

Note that this is added to the g_searchmenu config block. To do this create a new smenu_options setting. Sequence 2 is where it will appear in relation to the other search options: