Wishlist: Item tag search matching item tag type

[Elizabeth Thomsen]

We have the ability to set up different item tag types, for example, Memorial Gifts, Local Authors, Special Collections. These are used to display text in front of the specific tag text in the catalog, for example:

Memorial Gift: Given in memory of Professor Plum
Local Author: Jane Smith was born in Marblehead
Special Collection: Primrose Campbell Art Books

These can be searchable in the catalog, but only using the generic item tag type, Digital Bookplate. We'd like to be able to add search types for any and all of the tag types. One library may only want a search type for Memorial Gift, and another may want Special Collection and Local Author.

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

NOTE: The backend can support searching copy tags of specific types right now. In a user-supplied query string that would be spelled like this:

  copy_tag(memorial,professor,plum)

In CGI params, it looks like it would work like this:

  ...?fi:copy_tag=memorial&fi:copy_tag=professor&fi:copy_tag=plum

or possibly

  ...?fi:copy_tag=memorial,professor,plum

Because of internal details, you cannot do more than one copy_tag filter search using the CGI parameter version. So while you could do this in a typed query string:

  kw:foo bar site(BAZ) copy_tag(memorial,professor,plum) copy_tag(author,marblehead)

and get back only records with keywords foo and bar, with items at BAZ, where those items have both of the appropriately typed, matching tags, it doesn't look like you can do the same via the CGI parameter (or POSTed form parameter) mechanism.

[Elizabeth Thomsen (et-8)]

Our goal here is to make this a search option for patrons. Right now, you can turn on the search type "Digital Bookplate" and search for Plum, but we want to be able to have a search type called "Memorial Gift" (for example) and search for Plum.