Preferred Search Location, option to not use for search location
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Bug Description
EG 2.8.4,
We keep running into the fact that catalog users are being scoped to their home library when they log in, which causes them to think the system doesn't have certain items since they don't show up in their scoped search.
We have attempted to use the redirect option to add "locg=1" to the catalog URL to always set the search scope to consortium, but there seems to be too many ways around that. Like the logout button, which clears out the locg=1, so if someone logs out, then logs back in as another patron, their searches will now be limited again. Or any direct links that don't included the locg parameter, such as deep links from worldcat to specific titles.
We never want searches automatically limited unless the user takes some manual actions.
So I would like to propose a new YAOUS that disables setting the search library to the preferred search library when enabled. This seems simpler than trying to control all the links to the catalog.
The code in Open-ILS/
Josh
I am not sure what exactly you mean by "the redirect option", but we've had good success controlling this with SetEnv in our Apache config. Is that what you have tried? E.g.:
<Location /eg/opac>
...
SetEnv physical_loc 1
</Location>
There may be another setting involved which I am not remembering at this moment, but I don't think we've experienced the kind of issues you are describing when the above is in place.
Sincerely,
Dan