Angular catalog - Advanced Search with OR and AND Yields Erroneous Results

[Michele Morgan]

The Angular catalog groups advanced search terms differently than the traditional catalog

To reproduce this on a master Concerto system:

Set the library setting "GUI: Enable Traditional Staff Catalog" to TRUE

- Navigate to Cataloging - Search the Catalog (Traditional)
- Perform the following search:
 - keyword: symphony
 - Or keyword: concerto
 - And keyword: Tchaikovsky

Note that there are 4 hits
The search appearing in the resulting search box is:
((symphony || keyword:concerto) && keyword:tchaikovsky)

- Navigate to Cataloging - Search the Catalog
- Perform the same search as above in the Angular catalog

Note that there are 25 hits
Though not visible on the screen, logs show the search as:
((keyword:symphony) || (keyword:concerto) && (keyword:tchaikovsky))

Adding another OR term:

Traditional catalog:

(((symphony || keyword:concerto) || keyword:score) && keyword:tchaikovsky) - 5 hits

Angular catalog:

((keyword:symphony) || (keyword:concerto) || (keyword:score) && (keyword:tchaikovsky)) - 99 hits

Scoping similar searches also yields erroneous results in the Angular catalog. This was described in the following comments on bug 1929072:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1929072/comments/4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1929072/comments/5
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1929072/comments/9

1929072 was resolved in bug 1746800, I've moved Shannon Dineen's and Jennifer Pringle's reports here.

Also relevant is bug 1152863 - Support for traditional boolean operators.

[Jennifer Pringle (jpringle-u)]

I think we're seeing this in the angular catalogue in 3.9.1. When AND and OR is used in a search the search results don't scope to the selected library but show results from the entire consortium instead.