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Online search bug

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:03 pm
by DonRamiro
Hello,

Bookends added, now from some versions, the online search in the RERO catalog (Switzerland french-speaking part of the universities' libraries' catalog), and that's really great. Alas, there's a very annoying bug preventing it from being really useful :
When I do a search in the RERO catalog from bookends, if my search terms contains more than one term, Bookends returns "malformed search term". So for instance, a search with :

Classicisme
Will work, but

Classicisme Forestier
Will return "malformed search term"

I tried with the quotes, like :
"Classicisme Forestier"
But then it returns "invalid query".

Obviously, it makes it quite difficult, depending on the term used, to find a particular book reference. Is there's something to do ?

Thanks a lot (sorry for my quite bad english),
Christophe

Re: Online search bug

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:10 pm
by Jon
That's a limitation of their z39.50 provider. You can search for multiple terms by separating them with an underscore instead of a space:

william_skakespeare

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: Online search bug

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:14 pm
by DonRamiro
That's really great ! Thanks a lot for the answer, and so fast !!