[SPTUsers] A slightly different hyperlink issue / fuzzy search

corcoran at mlahq.org corcoran at mlahq.org
Thu Apr 1 14:35:38 CST 2004


I have a slightly different hyperlink issue than Lotus Ong; my preference 
would be to have the title hyperlink to the "full record" rather than to 
the URL of the actual resource. I can't tell you how many exasperated sighs 
I have heard when people expect to see more information (i.e., the "full 
record") rather than, for example, Acrobat Reader starting to open...

I did try to delink the hyperlink from the title using the instructions 
posted by Barry and Edward, but without success -- what files other than 
SPT--FullRecord.php might have cues? I have to admit I did not delete the 
the lines, just commented them out...

The second issue has to do with concept/fuzzy search. Has anyone come up 
with a creative solution to provide contextual terminology in a record so 
that related concepts, misspelled words, differently-spelled plurals, or 
other not-really-keywords can be used to search in resources? Admittedly, 
you would need to know your audience/profession using the toolkit really 
well, but I'm interested to know if any larger implementations of the 
toolkit are trying something.

TIA -- Kate C.



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