[ipac] Bud, not Buddy Redux

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Still a problem all the way around.  I've been told fixed in 8.x ;(

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From: "Sona J Dombourian" <sdombour at state.lib.la.us> 

> (2nd try, sorry if a duplicate post) 
> 
> We have Bookletters now 
> http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/bookletter/fealists.html?sid=6427. I 
> was searching the fiction list and came across "The Guy Not Taken" by 
> Weiner. I clicked the "Search our catalog" link and of course it wasn't 
> found in ipac because Bookletters is using the Author keyword and Title 
> Keyword to search iPac and, of course, Not is being treated as a boolean 
> operator. 
> 
> We are on Dynix Classic 191 and iPac 2.03.01 
> 
> I checked iPac archives and found the original stumper posed by q back in 
> 2002, found the enhancement (id 3080) and subsequent vote, as well as a 
> resolutions database work around (resolution id # 535307). 
> 
> >From what staff tells me, we can either have Bookletters search on ISBN or 
> the keyword and we like that the various media formats/versions of a title 
> come up with the keyword. Apparently it is a global method we pick for 
> Bookletters to use in searching the catalog. Therefore, the workaround 
> (which was, um, not to 'not') wouldn't work in this case. We hope most 
> customers would try searching a different way rather than assume we didn't 
> own the title, but... 
> 
> Has this actually been resolved in the post 2.03.01 versions of HIP that 
> work with Classic? Or has anyone else with Bookletters come up with the 
> right fix? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> -Sona. 
> ------------------------------------ 
> Sona J Dombourian 
> Director 
> Lafayette Public Library 
> sdombour at state.lib.la.us 
> 301 W. Congress St. 
> Lafayette, LA 70501 
> 
> tel: (337)261-5781 
> fax: (337)261-5782 
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