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    Punctuation causes search to fail (from SFX)

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    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 17.01

    Description:
    When following SFX links to the OPAC if any punctuation such as a colon is included in the search then the search fails.
    Is there a table or something which can control how the OPAC handles puncuation? Can we ask it to ignore colons?

    Resolution:
    In XXX01/tab/tab_word_breaking, there is a word routine "90" which is reserved for the system. It is used when parsing a FIND query. This section should look like this:

    90 # compress_h_quote
    90 # to_blank @$^_={}[]:;<,.\/

    I can see that section 90 is commented out on your server. Please add it, restart the servers and test again.

    keywords: SFX punctuation colon search fails)

    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013