https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1869890
Currently, if you navigate to Numeric Search and perform such a search, you must navigate back to Numeric Search to do further searches of the same type.
It would be much better if the search box on the results page were populated in such a way so that it could be edited to modify the search. This would require to changes:
1. The search box should be populated with a human readable version of the search, e.g. isbn:0545010225 or call_num:PS301 or barcode:A001122334455
2. The search grammar must be updated to recognize searches entered as in #1.
This also would have the advantage of allowing more proficient users to perform their numeric searches from any screen, without having to navigate to the numeric search page in the first place.
One response
I agree that the search shown at the top of the search results page should match the search just performed, with the search type, format and scope all set correctly. But I don’t think the search type information should be in the search box itself, just in the dropdown. If anything other than the search terms end up in that box, it makes it harder for the user to enter a new search term. So rather than look like have this in the search box: identifier|isbn:9780062436634 I think it would be better to just have the dropdown for ISBN and just the isbn in the search box itself.
Putting search types in the search box is a messy habit the catalog has — you see it if you search as keyword and then change the search type to title and then subject, etc., and the search box ends up looking like this: https://bit.ly/messysearch