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RE: [EP-tech] Search interface

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OK, please mark this one as closed. I have found out what I had done to my SEARCH button. I had simply overwritten the phrase that sits on the search button, next to the simple search box, not realizing that it also bites on a similar search button on the Advanced search page. It was not a button to switch to simple search, but a button to execute the search. I have now put it back again, and everything is fine once more.

 

Best wishes

 

Will

 

From: Will Hughes
Sent: 26 July 2025 19:11
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: FW: [EP-tech] Search interface

 

Hi

On further digging, I have discovered that the logic for complex and Boolean searches seems already available in Eprints 3.4 at (in my installation) /opt/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Search

However, these routines are not mobilized in the flavour of my installation. Maybe the user interface for such searches exists already in a different flavour and a bunch of relevant files could be copied over from GitHub? I am not at all sure where to start looking. Needles and haystacks come to mind…

 

Anyway, instead of re-programming the current configuration and getting into murky waters, I added some explanations on the Advanced Search screen to explain to users how to use the various buttons in ways that are quite useful. However, somehow, the button to go back to simple search from the advanced search screen generates an error message “Warning

You need to specify something for at least one field!” and remains on the advanced search screen. Meanwhile, the simple search at the top right of the template still works as it did before. I cannot find where the button behaviour is controlled, and I wonder why (or even whether) its behaviour has changed. I would also like to stop the error message for a blank input to the simple search button and, instead jump to the simple search page.

 

Can anyone help me, please, to find out what happened to my Simple Search button!

Please see https://arcomabstracts.com/cgi/search/advanced if you think you may be able to help.

Thank you in advance

Best wishes

 

Will

 

From: eprints-tech-request@ecs.soton.ac.uk <eprints-tech-request@ecs.soton.ac.uk> On Behalf Of Will Hughes
Sent: 25 July 2025 14:18
To: EPrints.org Technical List <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: [EP-tech] Search interface

 

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Hi

 

I am wondering whether there is a more sophisticated search interface in Eprints 3.

 

Currently, in Advanced Search, predetermined fields are listed and then users enter terms. I would like to be able to provide a search interface that enables a series of lines separated by Boolean operators, as many lines as the user wants to add, with two boxes; one with the name of the field, the other with the search term. And I would like to use quotation marks to mean search only for an exact combination of words. I am imagining something roughly along the lines of ProQuest Advanced search, or EndNote search. 

 

Is any of this possible, or available, please?

 

Best wishes 

 

Will

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