Sort options not available for results exceeding 999,9999
- Article Type: General
- Product: Aleph
- Product Version: 16.02
Description:
When we have:
setenv set_result_set_limit 1000
setenv www_sort_limit 1000
in aleph_start and we do a search which retrieves 1200 records, we find that the displayed result set (the Brief List) is not sorted.
When we have:
setenv set_result_set_limit 1000
setenv www_sort_limit 3000
in aleph_start and we do a search which retrieves 1200 records, we find that the displayed result set *is* sorted.
By increasing the www_sort_limit beyond the set_result_set_limit, we are able to permit the set to be sorted.
Shouldn't www_sort_limit should be working with the displayed result set, not the total result set? The fact that there are 1,200 hits should not affect the ability to sort a displayed result set of 1,000.
Also, if we omit the www_sort_limit entirely, we find that it defaults to 999,999. This works fine -- except in the cases where the total result-set is greater than 999,999. In that case, as described above, the displayed result set is not sorted.
Resolution:
Corrected by:
V16 - rep_change 2127
V18 - rep_change 1251
V19 - rep_ver 14329
so that the www_sort_limit is compared to the displayed result set (rather than the total result set): it is only when the *displayed* result set is greater than www_sort_limit, that the displayed result set is not sorted.
- Article last edited: 10/8/2013