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LibrisKey

Asks: Swedish service for spellchecking. LIBRIS spellchecking API key ___

Description :

LibrisURL

Asks: LIBRIS base URL ___

Default: http://api.libris.kb.se/bibspell/

Description :

  • This system preference is used to set the base URL for the LIBRIS spellchecking service API

  • The default value should be the right one. Make sure you only change it if you are sure it needs to be changed

Fonctionnalités

BrowseResultSelection

Asks: ___ browsing search results from the bibliographic record detail page in staff interface.

Par défaut : Désactiver

Valeurs :

  • Désactiver

  • Activer

Description :

  • Enabling this system preference makes a button appear in the staff interface search results page to browse the selected records.

ElasticsearchCrossFields

Asks: ___ the cross_fields option for Elasticsearch searches.

Default: Enable

Valeurs :

  • Désactiver

  • Activer

Note

The cross_fields option is supported in Elasticsearch 6.X and above.

Description :

  • This system preference controls whether or not Elasticsearch’s cross_fields option is enabled. As this option only works with ES6 and above, this system preference should be disabled if using an older version.

  • The cross_fields option is used in keyword searches to search across all fields. In Koha, keyword searches are not searches in a specific “keyword” index, but rather a search across all searchable indexes. With Elasticsearch 6, if cross_fields is disabled, the keyword search will return results where the search terms all appear in the same index (for example, the “title” index). If cross_fields is enabled, the keyword search will return results where the search terms appear in any index.

    Note

    For example, a keyword search for « king grass » with Elasticsearch 6 will return the following results

    With ElasticsearchCrossFields disabled:

    • The Island of the Grass King by Nancy Willard (grass in title/king in title)

    With ElasticsearchCrossFields enabled:

    • The Island of the Grass King by Nancy Willard (grass in title/king in title)

    • In the tall grass by Stephen King (grass in title/king in author)

  • Visit https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html#type-cross-fields for more information on this option.

EnableSearchHistory

Asks: ___ patron search history in the staff interface.

Default: Don’t keep

Valeurs :

  • Don’t keep

  • Keep

Description :

  • This system preference controls whether the staff interface keeps search history for logged in users. Search history will be accessible under the link to your account at the top right of the staff interface.

Option d'historique de recherche dans le menu utilisateur en haut de la page

ESPreventAutoTruncate

Version

Cette préférence système a été ajoutée à Koha dans sa version 24.05.

Asks: List of search fields (separated by | or ,) that should not be autotruncated by Elasticsearch even if QueryAutoTruncate is set to “Yes”: ___

Default: barcode|control-number|control-number-identifier |date-of-acquisition|date-of-publication|date-time-last-modified |identifier-standard|isbn|issn|itype|lc-card-number |number-local-acquisition|other-control-number|record-control-number

Values: any Elasticsearch index name

Description :

  • This system preference is used to determine which Elasticsearch indexes are not to be autotruncated. In most cases, those are identifiers such as barcode and control-number. Truncating identifiers in the search can return too many results that are not relevant.

  • This system preference is only useful if the SearchEngine system preference is set to “Elasticsearch” and the QueryAutoTruncate system preference is set to “automatically”.

IncludeSeeFromInSearches

Asks: ___ see from (non-preferred form) headings in bibliographic searches.

Default: Don’t include

Valeurs :

  • Don’t include

  • Inclure

Description :

  • When this system preference is set to “include”, the search engine indexer will insert see from headings from authority records into bibliographic records when indexing, so that a search on an obsolete term will turn up relevant records. For example when you search for cookery (the old term) you get titles with the heading of cooking (the new term).

Screenshot of Advanced search form with tooltip message showing that 'See from' headings are included

Avertissement

You will need to reindex your bibliographic database when changing this system preference.

QueryAutoTruncate

Asks: Perform wildcard searching (where, for example, Har would match Harry and harp) ___ (The * character would be used like so: Har* or *logging.)

Default: automatically

Valeurs :

  • automatically

  • only if * is added

Description :

  • This setting allows for searches to be automatically truncated or for additional characters to be added to the end of a search string. When set to « automatically » the search string automatically ends with a wildcard function. For example, a search for the word « invent » with auto truncation enabled will also retrieve results for inventor, invention, inventory, etc.

  • If you don’t want this to happen automatically you can still be perform wildcard searches manually by adding an asterisk (*). Typing « invent* » even with auto truncation disabled will retrieve the same inventor, invention, inventory results.

  • Auto truncation bypasses the necessity to type long search strings in their entirety, but can return a lot of undesired results.

Note

Regardless of this system preference, search engines prevent autotruncation for some search fields.

Zebra prevents the autotruncation for:

  • yr (date of publication)

  • acqdate (date of acquisition)

  • nb (ISBN)

  • ns (ISSN)

  • hi (host itemnumber)

As well as any CCL search with the index specified before the search term (for example, sn:1234 or an:4321), or with one of these search types specified after the index: st-*, phr, or ext (for example, ti,phr:kittens).

Elasticsearch prevents the autotruncation for:

  • biblioitemnumber

  • host-item-number

  • itemnumber

  • koha-auth-number

  • local-number

As well as any search field defined as boolean, sum, or year in the mappings and any other index listed in the ESPreventAutoTruncate system preference.

The prevention of truncation is there so that searches (mostly for identifiers) do not return irrelevant results.

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QueryFuzzy

Asks: ___ to match similarly spelled words in a search (for example, a search for flang would also match flange and fang)

Default: Try

Valeurs :

  • Don’t try

  • Try

Description :

  • This system preference enables « fuzzy » searching, in which the search engine returns results that are similar to, but not exactly matching, the word or words entered by the user. This system preference enables the search function to compensate for slightly misspelled names or phrases.

Avertissement

This does not work if ICU is enabled in your system.

Avertissement

This system preference only works with Zebra. When using Elasticsearch, a fuzzy search can be performed by adding a tilde (~) directly after the term. For example, flang~.

QueryRegexEscapeOptions

Asks: ___ regular expressions within strings.

Default: Escape

Valeurs :

  • Don’t escape

  • Escape

  • Unescaped escaped

Description :

  • If “Escape” is selected occurrences of “/”” in search terms will be automatically escaped, and regular expressions interpreted as regular strings. In other words, regular expressions are disabled and search terms are search as-is (for example, “an essential grammar / William Z. Shetter”).

  • If “Unescape escaped” is selected this will allow writing regular expressions “/like this/”” while “/this/”, “or/this” will be escaped and interpreted as regular strings. In other words, use this option if you want to be able to use regular expressions in your search queries.

  • If “Don’t escape” is selected, the default behavior of the Elasticsearch search engine will be left unaltered. Several characters will be interpreted as being part of a regular expression, such as the forward slash (/).

Avertissement

This system preference is used with Elasticsearch only. If you use Zebra as your SearchEngine, it will not change anything.

QueryStemming

Asks: ___ to match words of the same base in a search

Default: Try

Valeurs :

  • Don’t try

  • Try

Description :

  • This system preference enables word stemming. Stemming allows the search function to return multiple versions of the same word, as well as related terms (i.e., both fish and fishing would be returned).

Avertissement

This system preference is used with Zebra only. Elasticsearch does stemming searches automatically.

QueryWeightFields

Asks: ___ ranking of search results by relevance

Default: Enable

Valeurs :

  • Désactiver

  • Activer

Description :

  • This system preference is used to enable or disable the sorting of search results by relevance.

Avertissement

This system preference is used with Zebra only.

SavedSearchFilters

Asks: ___ the option for staff with permission to create/edit custom saved search filters.

Par défaut : Désactiver

Valeurs :

  • Désactiver

  • Activer

Description :

TraceCompleteSubfields

Asks: ___ subject tracings in the OPAC and staff interface to search only for complete-subfield matches.

Default: Force

Valeurs :

  • Ne pas forcer

    • Searches for subject keywords (example: opac-search.pl?q=su:World%20Wide%20Web)

  • Forcer

    • Searches for complete subject fields (example: opac-search.pl?q=su,complete-subfield:World%20Wide%20Web)

Description :

  • When TraceCompleteSubfields is set to “force”, clicking on links in non-authority controlled subject tracings will only find other records where the entire subfields match. Leaving it at « don’t force » does a keyword search of the subject indexes.

Avertissement

Cette préférence suppose que vous utilisez des feuilles de style XSLT comme paramétré dans les préférences système OPACXSLTDetailsDisplay ou XSLTDetailsDisplay.

TraceSubjectSubdivisions

Asks: ___ subdivisions for searches generated by clicking on subject tracings.

Par défaut : Inclure

Valeurs :

  • Don’t include

    • Searches for subject keywords (example: opac-search.pl?q=su,complete-subfield:%22Web%20sites%22)

  • Inclure

    • Searches for complete subject fields (example: opac-search.pl?q=(su,complete-subfield:%22Web%20sites%22)%20and%20(su,complete-subfield:%22Design.%22))

Description :

  • When TraceSubjectSubdivisions is set to “Include”, if you click on a subject with subdivisions (subfields other than “a”) they will be searched along with the subject heading (subfield “a”). To have only the subject heading (subfield “a”) searched, set this system preference to « Don’t include. »

Avertissement

Cette préférence suppose que vous utilisez des feuilles de style XSLT comme paramétré dans les préférences système OPACXSLTDetailsDisplay ou XSLTDetailsDisplay.

UseICUStyleQuotes

Asks: ___ ICU style quotes ({}) when tracing subjects.

Default: Don’t use

Valeurs :

  • Ne pas utiliser

  • Use

Description :

  • This system preference lets you decide which style of quotes to use when tracing subjects.

  • If set to « Don’t use », the regular double quotes (« « ) will be used

  • If set to « Use », the quotes will be replaced by curly brackets ({})

Results display

AuthorLinkSortBy and AuthorLinkSortOrder

Version

Cette préférence système a été intégrée à Koha à partir de la version 23.11.

Asks: By default, sort search results from author links in MARC21 detail pages and result lists by ___, ___.

AuthorLinkSortBy values:

  • date added

  • call number

  • default sort field and order specified in defaultSortField or OPACdefaultSortField

  • date of publication

  • title

AuthorLinkSortBy default: default sort field and order specified in defaultSortField or OPACdefaultSortField

AuthorLinkSortOrder values:

  • ascending

  • from A to Z

  • descending

  • from Z to A

AuthorLinkSortOrder default: ascending

Description :

  • Authors and contributors in the detail pages are linked to search for more materials of the same persons or institutions. These preferences allow to change the sort order for these links specifically.

BiblioItemtypeInfo

Asks: ___ Koha record-level itemtype info on detail and result pages in the OPAC and staff interface.

Par défaut : Ne pas afficher

Valeurs :

  • Ne pas afficher

  • Afficher

Description :

  • If enabled, the icons for the record item type (942$c) will be displayed on the record detail and search result pages in both the OPAC and staff interface.

  • This information also displays if the item-level_itypes system preference is set to bibliographic record.

defaultSortField and defaultSortOrder

Asks: By default, sort search results in the staff interface by ___, ___

Default: relevance (defaultSortField), descending (defaultSortOrder)

Valeurs :

defaultSortField

  • date added

  • author

  • call number

  • total number of checkouts

  • date of publication

  • relevance

  • title

defaultSortOrder

  • ascending

  • from A to Z

  • descending

  • from Z to A

Description :

  • These preferences set the default sort field and sort order for searches in the staff interface.

  • Regardless of this setting, the other sort options are still available in the advanced search form and the search results page.

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displayFacetCount

Asks: ___ facet counts.

Par défaut : Ne pas afficher

Valeurs :

  • Ne pas afficher

  • Afficher

Description :

  • This system preference lets you decide if you show how many times a facet is used in your search results in the OPAC and the staff interface.

    Facettes de la page de résultats de recherche

  • The relevance of these numbers highly depends on the value of the maxRecordsForFacets preference.

  • Showing these numbers can potentially affect the performance of your searching, so test your system with different values for this preference to see what works best.

DisplayLibraryFacets

Asks: Show facets for ___

Default: holding library

Valeurs :

  • both home and holding library

  • holding library

  • home library

Description :

  • This system preference controls the “libraries” facet that displays on the search results page in the staff interface and the OPAC. The value selected here will determine which libraries show in the facets when a search is run.

Avertissement

As of Koha version 24.05, this system preference is only used by Zebra. Facets in Elasticsearch are configurable in Search engine configuration.

FacetLabelTruncationLength

Asks: Truncate facets length to ___ characters, in OPAC/staff interface.

Default: 20

Description :

  • In the OPAC and the staff interface, facets are cut off at 20 characters by default. Depending on the layout this may be too many or too few letters. This system preference lets you decide what number is best for your library’s design.

Avertissement

This preference only works with Zebra. When using ElasticSearch, facets cannot be truncated, they will be displayed in full.

FacetMaxCount

Asks: Show up ___ to facets for each category.

Default: 20

Description :

  • This system preference allows you to control how many possible limits show under each heading (Author, Series, Topics, etc) in the facets in the staff interface and OPAC.

FacetOrder

Asks: Sort facets ___ for each category.

Default: alphabetically

Valeurs :

  • alphabetically

  • by usage count

Description :

  • This preference allows you to control the order of facets in each category (Authors, Series, Topics, etc.)

  • By default, facets are ordered alphabetically. But it is possible to order them by the one with the most occurrences to the one with the least occurrences.

maxItemsInSearchResults

Asks: Show up to ___ items per bibliographic record in the search results.

Default: 20

Description :

  • This system preference will let you set how many items are displayed for each record in the search results in the staff interface.

maxRecordsForFacets

Asks: Build facets based on ___ records from the search results.

Default: 20

Description :

  • By default, Koha only bases facets on the first twenty search results. This system preference lets you tell Koha to base the facet descriptions and numbers on any number of search results returned.

Avertissement

The higher this number the longer it will take for your search results to return, so test with various different values to find the best balance according to your resources.

MaxSearchResultsItemsPerRecordStatusCheck

Asks: For records with many items, only check the availability status for the first ___ items.

Default: 20

Description :

  • Availability statuses may show incorrectly in search results if a record has more items than the limit set.

Note

Statuses will display correctly in the record details.

  • Leave empty for no limit.

numSearchResults

Asks: By default, show ___ results per page in the staff interface.

Default: 20

Description :

  • This system preference allows you to choose the default number of results per page in search results in the staff interface.

  • Si vous souhaitez que les utilisateurs puissent changer ce nombre, activez la préférence système numSearchResultsDropdown.

  • Utilisez OPACnumSearchResults pour définir le nombre par défaut de résultats par page à l’OPAC.

numSearchResultsDropdown

Asks: ___ results per page dropdown on staff interface search results.

Par défaut : Ne pas afficher

Valeurs :

  • Ne pas afficher

  • Afficher

Description :

  • If set to “Show” this system preference will make a drop down menu appear in the search results allowing the user to choose how many results they want to see per page.

  • Utilisez numSearchResults pour définir la valeur par défaut.

  • Utilisez OPACnumSearchResults pour définir si le menu déroulant s’affiche à l’OPAC.

OPACdefaultSortField and OPACdefaultSortOrder

Asks: By default, sort search results in the OPAC by ___, ___

Default: relevance (OPACdefaultSortField), descending (OPACdefaultSortOrder)

Valeurs :

OPACdefaultSortField

  • date added

  • author

  • call number

  • total number of checkouts

  • date of publication

  • relevance

  • title

OPACdefaultSortOrder

  • ascending

  • from A to Z

  • descending

  • from Z to A

Description :

  • These system preferences set the default sort field and sort order for searches on the OPAC. Regardless of your choice, the other sort options are still available in the drop down list on the advanced search page.

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OPACnumSearchResults

Asks: By default, show ___ results per page in the OPAC.

Default: 20

Description :

  • This system preference allows you to choose the default number of results per page in search results in the OPAC.

  • Si vous souhaitez que les utilisateurs puissent changer ce nombre, activez la préférence système OPACnumSearchResultsDropdown.

  • Utilisez numSearchResults pour définir le nombre par défaut de résultats par page dans l’interface professionnelle.

OPACnumSearchResultsDropdown

Action : ___ le menu déroulant Résultats par page, dans la recherche de l’OPAC.

Par défaut : Ne pas afficher

Valeurs :

  • Ne pas afficher

  • Afficher

Description :

  • If set to “Show” this system preference will make a drop down menu appear in the search results allowing the user to choose how many results they want to see per page.

  • Utilisez OPACnumSearchResults pour définir la valeur par défaut.

  • Use numSearchResultsDropdown to define if the dropdown appears in the staff interface.

PassItemMarcToXSLT

Asks: ___ make item MARC tags available to XSLT stylesheets.

Default: Don’t

Valeurs :

  • Don’t

  • Do

Description :

  • This system preference determines whether or not the item fields are passed to the XSLT stylesheets for display.

  • Enable only if using custom XSLT stylesheets that display the items.

  • If this system preference is disabled, records are displayed faster when using the default XSLT stylesheets.

RedirectToSoleResult

Asks: ___ to the result if a catalog search via the OPAC or staff interface returns only one record.

Default: Redirect

Valeurs :

  • Don’t redirect

  • Redirect

Description :

  • This system preference determines whether or not the user is redirected to the detailed record when there is only one search result.

RetainCatalogSearchTerms

Asks: ___ search terms between searches when searching from the “search the catalog” tab in the staff interface header.

Default: Retain

Valeurs :

  • Don’t retain

  • Retain

Description :

  • This system preference is used to determine whether or not, for catalog searches in the staff interface, the search term entered in the search bar at the top of the page stays there once the search is launched.

  • If set to « Don’t retain », the search bar will be emptied after the search is launched.

  • If set to « Retain », the search term will stay in the search bar.

RetainPatronsSearchTerms

Asks: ___ search terms between searches when searching from the “checkout” and “search patrons” tab in the staff interface header.

Default: Retain

Valeurs :

  • Don’t retain

  • Retain

Description :

  • This system preference is used to determine whether or not, for checkout and patron searches in the staff interface, the search term entered in the search bar at the top of the page stays there once the search is launched.

  • If set to « Don’t retain », the search bar will be emptied after the search is launched.

  • If set to « Retain », the search term will stay in the search bar.

SearchLimitLibrary

Asks: When limiting search results with a library or library group, limit by the item’s ___.

Default: home library

Valeurs :

  • home library and holding library

  • holding library

  • home library

Description :

SearchWithISBNVariations

Asks: When searching on the ISBN index, ___ on all variations of the ISBN.

Default: don’t search

Valeurs :

  • don’t search

  • search

Descriptions:

  • With this system preference set to search you’ll be able to search for ISBNs even if there are dashes or spaces in the field. So if you search for 9781843345855 but the ISBN was cataloged as 978-1843345855 you’ll still be able to find it if this system preference is set to “search”.

SearchWithISSNVariations

Asks: When searching on the ISSN index, ___ on all variations of the ISSN.

Default: don’t search

Valeurs :

  • don’t search

  • search

Descriptions:

  • If this system preference is set to “search” you’ll be able to search for ISSNs without the hyphen. For example, searching for 12345678 will find records that have the ISSN 1234-5678.

  • This system preference currently works in the advanced search, when using the ISSN index, and in the orders advanced search in acquisitions.

UNIMARCAuthorsFacetsSeparator

Asks: Use the following text as separator for UNIMARC authors facets ___

Default: , (comma, space)

Description :

  • When using UNIMARC, the default separator for authors” last and first names in the facets is a comma followed by a space.

Search form

AdvancedSearchLanguages

Asks: Limit the languages listed in the advanced search drop-down to the ___ ISO 639-2 language codes (separate values with | or ,).

Description :

  • This system preference will allow you to decide which languages show in the drop down menu on the advanced search page in the OPAC and the staff interface.

  • If this preference is left blank, all languages will show. To limit the languages that are shown enter their ISO 639-2 language codes separated by comma ( , ) or pipe ( | ). For example to limit listing to French and Italian, enter ita|fre.

AdvancedSearchTypes

Asks: Show tabs in the staff interface advanced search for limiting searches on the ___ fields.

Default: itemtypes

Description :

  • On the advanced search page in the staff interface, you can choose to allow filters on one or all of the following: item types (itemtypes), collection codes (ccode) and shelving location (loc).

    Onglet de recherche avancée avec les limites de type de document, de localisation et de collection

  • Séparer les valeurs multiples par une barre verticale (|). Par exemple, saisissez itemtypes|loc pour permettre de limiter les recherches aux types de document et localisations.

  • The order in which the options are entered in the system preference is the order in which the tabs will appear. The first option in the system preference is the selected tab.

  • If left empty, « itemtypes » is used.

  • Values within the search type are OR’ed together, while each different search type is AND’ed together in the query limits.

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expandedSearchOption

Asks: By default, ___ « More options » on the OPAC and staff interface advanced search pages.

Default: don’t show

Valeurs :

  • don’t show

  • show

Description :

  • This system preference lets you decide if the “More options” search options (such as date and language limits) are displayed by default of if the user has to click “More options” to access them.

IntranetNumbersPreferPhrase

Asks: By default, ___ the operator « phr » in the callnumber and standard number staff interface searches.

Default: don’t use

Valeurs :

  • don’t use

  • use

Description :

  • When searching by call number and standard number (biblionumber) in the staff interface, you can choose to force the search to be a phrase search by setting this preference to “use”. This will allow for more accurate results over doing a general keyword field search.

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LoadSearchHistoryToTheFirstLoggedUser

Asks: ___ search history of the unlogged user to the next patron logging in.

Default: Add

Valeurs :

  • Don’t add

  • Add

Description :

  • In the OPAC, if a patron is not logged in, the searches they do will not be added to their search history. This system preference determines if the searches done while not logged in are added to the search history of the next patron who logs in.

OPACNumbersPreferPhrase

Asks: By default, ___ the operator « phr » in the callnumber and standard number OPAC searches

Default: don’t use

Valeurs :

  • don’t use

  • use

Description :

  • When searching by call number and standard number (biblionumber) in the OPAC you can choose to force the search to be a phrase search by setting this preference to “use”. This will allow for more accurate results over doing a general keyword field search.

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