[ipac] Predefined Limits in HIP

[Bozena Gorska]

Hi Stephanie,
We are still on HIP 2.1so I can answer your question:
"if a user selects a second limit on the results page, the first limit (in
our case location) is canceled out"
Yes, this is correct, but we found a way to "force" HIP NOT to loose the
location limit by adding Boolean AND to the limits.  For example limit to
non fiction would look like this: location You would  have to have filters defined in  Horizon as well
If you need more details let me know
Bozena Gorska
Library Systems Analyst
Peel District School Board

On 1/25/07, Stefanie Brolly <brollys at hdsb.ca> wrote:
>
> Good morning!
>
> I have a question for any libraries that have a default location limit
> applied to their HIP profiles in order to limit search results performed to
> just that location's items.
>
> It is has always been my understanding that once the initial search is
> performed and the search results (which will be limited by the location
> specified) are returned, if a user selects a second limit on the results
> page, the first limit (in our case location) is canceled out, and the search
> is re-performed with the new limit selected.  In our case, this means that
> search results that are returned after the second limit is applied may or
> may not belong to the location who's catalogue is being searched.
>
> This is the way that I have always understood the limits to work, and this
> has been confirmed by a recent Log Express to SirsiDynix, and by a "Tech
> Tips" document on HIP Limits that I found on the SirsiDynix website.
>
> However, I have had three schools in the past week and a half complain
> that limiting hasn't been working since we had our Horizon 7.3.4/HIP 3.08aupgrade at the beginning of January.  They all state that previously, they
> were able to apply a second limit after performing an initial search that
> was limited by location, and that after applying that second limit, the
> results that were returned were for their location only.
>
> I guess I am looking for a little reassurance from other libraries using
> default location limits that I am in fact not losing my mind - that our
> users  have never had this capability - and that what I have been told by
> SirsiDynix and have read on the site is in fact true!
>
> The response to my log to SirsiDynix was that there was a workaround by
> creating new combined limits, but that is not something that I want to get
> into at this time.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefanie
>
>
> Stefanie Brolly
> Library Information Systems Technician
> Halton District School Board
> (905) 335-3665 ext. 3224
> www.hdsb.ca/library
>
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