[#VUFIND-843] Allow more flexible search handler drop-down

[VUFIND-843] Allow more flexible search handler drop-down Created: 10/Jul/13 Updated: 19/Aug/13 Resolved: 10/Jul/13
Status:	Resolved
Project:	VuFind®
Components:	Search
Affects versions:	None
Fix versions:	2.1

Type:

Improvement

Priority:

Major

Reporter:

Demian Katz

Assignee:

Unassigned

Resolution:

Fixed

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None

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Description

We should allow the handler drop-down in the search box to perform searches in multiple VuFind modules and on external sites for a more flexible one-stop search experience.

Comments

Comment by Demian Katz [ 10/Jul/13 ]

Implemented here:

https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/commit/c26ca56251f59fd1e455343fb70c4fbc06d97d72

It might be nice to avoid the extra server hop by implementing some of this logic in Javascript, but this solution offers broad compatibility and relative simplicity.

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[VUFIND-843] Allow more flexible search handler drop-down Created: 10/Jul/13 Updated: 19/Aug/13 Resolved: 10/Jul/13