After bug LP#1501781 ("Patron name search should be diacritic-insensitive") was completed, it occurred to some that punctuation should be removed, too.
"The current punctuation-sensitive setup is not desirable in any way that I can think of. Lots of false failed searches when library staff search OBRIEN instead of O'BRIEN, SMITH-JONES instead of SMITHJONES, or vice versa. And lots of duplicate accounts as a result.frown
"The inability to add multiple first name or last name fields to a patron record also remains a major functionality present in Millennium Circulation and lost in Evergreen, and leads to many of the same mistakes cited above re: punctuation... Margaret vs. Peggy, Thomas J Smith vs. Jefferson Smith, etc."
This functionality will be controlled by the same user setting as the "ignore diacriticals".
This is not a bug, but an extension to a new feature.
After bug LP#1501781 ("Patron name search should be diacritic- insensitive" ) was completed, it occurred to some that punctuation should be removed, too.
In MassLNC, this is recorded in http:// masslnc. org/node/ 3049 :
"The current punctuation- sensitive setup is not desirable in any way that I can think of. Lots of false failed searches when library staff search OBRIEN instead of O'BRIEN, SMITH-JONES instead of SMITHJONES, or vice versa. And lots of duplicate accounts as a result.frown
"The inability to add multiple first name or last name fields to a patron record also remains a major functionality present in Millennium Circulation and lost in Evergreen, and leads to many of the same mistakes cited above re: punctuation... Margaret vs. Peggy, Thomas J Smith vs. Jefferson Smith, etc."
This functionality will be controlled by the same user setting as the "ignore diacriticals".
This is not a bug, but an extension to a new feature.