Comment 3 for bug 1677902

AH! Yes, I was misunderstanding. I agree that the low-hits page should, by default, exclude the Format (basic search dropdown) filter, as Jeff says.

As for customized templates that add Search Formats to the advanced search page, I think that will require a bit of work on a few fronts. OTTOMH, I imagine we should make the basic search Format widget smarter so that it does not use a value if more than one is supplied in the URL, perhaps even hide it in that case -- that should cover the multi-select in custom templates bug part of 1669563. Then, the sidebar addition should only happen if there was more than one value passed. There's already logic to trim the filters displayed in table.tt2 that unconditionally ignores search_format, so that just needs to be made conditional on how many values were passed. That can then be copied into lowhits.tt2.

Sorry for the confusion ... does that plan seem like reasonable repayment for the noise? ;)