Wishlist: Acq search support boolean operators

[Tiffany Little]

Wishlist.

I'd like to see the Acq search support boolean searching. We've got some of the building blocks already with our multiple search terms that are already separate "terms". UI-wise, it could be as easy as adding a dropdown at the beginning of each row with AND|OR (it should default to AND, imo).

I think this is a good idea anyway, but consider this possible scenario: I'm an administrator who has 5 libraries who do their own ordering (so 5 different ordering agencies). I want to see everything they have on-order right now. As it is now, I'd have to do 5 different searches and see each one of them at one time. With boolean searching, I could set up a default search with all 5 ordering agencies, chained with OR's, with an AND Status=On Order.

This would also then replace the "Search for records matching all|any of the following terms" which I find to be too restrictive and not helpful most of the time anyway.