Advanced Search Redesign
The advanced search is an important part of VuFind that has been overlooked. An Advanced Search feature is important because it allows a user to specify their search to a specific combination of fields.
To make a powerful and intuitive Advanced Search, a user-interface redesign is valuable. Below is a design view of the advanced search form for VuFind. Please reflect and edit as you like to develop a community based requirement for the Advanced Search form.
| I'm looking for | <input type=“text” value=“keywords”> | |
| With these words in the title | <input type=“text” value=“title”> | |
| Created By | <input type=“text” value=“author”> | |
| With these subjects | <input type=“text” value=“subject”> | |
| Created in the year | <input type=“text” value=“year”> | |
| Published by | <input type=“text” value=“publisher”> | |
| In this series | <input type=“text” value=“series”> | |
| With these words in the table of contents | <input type=“text” value=“toc”> | |
| Limited to | ||
| Call Number | Language | Format |
| <select size=10></select> | <select size=10></select> | <select size=10></select> |
| Is illustrated | <input type=“checkbox”> Yes |
Note: This is intended as a recommended default form; we will implement this in a configurable way so that individual users can easily customize as needed.
To discuss the implementation of this form, see also the VUFIND-178 issue in JIRA.
