Web Client - Author Search from Link Fails in Record, Works in Search Results

[Jennifer Pringle]

Evergreen 3.1

Clicking on the author or added author link in a record in the OPAC or web client OPAC view results in a failed search if the author's name contains a date ($d in the 1XX or 7XX fields of the MARC record). However, if you click on the author link for the same record but do it on the the search results page the search will succeed.

If I click on the author link on the search results page the term it shows in the search box is "author:Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 1756 1791"
If I click on the author link on the record page the term it shows in the search box is "author:Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus1756 1791"

I suspect the search failure is caused by the missing space between Amadeus and 1756 when clicking on the author or added author link from the record.

I'm seeing this bug on our 3.1 test servers and MassLNC's community server. I'm not seeing this bug on any of the 3.0 OPACs I've tested.

[Jeff Davis (jdavis-sitka)]

Working branch user/jeffdavis/lp1766379-author-link-broken-search inserts a space between query terms when building author links, which seems to fix the issue:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/jeffdavis/lp1766379-author-link-broken-search

[Garry Collum (gcollum)]

Tested. Works perfectly. Signed off at http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/gcollum/lp1766379-author-link-broken-search-signoff

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Setting the 3.0 target to Invalid since this appears to be a new bug that was introduced in 3.1. If anyone has seen this behavior occur in 3.0, please let me know so that we can be sure to backport it there.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

Works for me too! Thanks Jeff and Garry. Merged to master and release 3.1.