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* When searching, hyphenated strings are dehyphenated and validated. If the search string va

...show if we are loosing information in the merge. Sometimes I end up copy/searching for strings to make sure all the titles are exactly the same, etc. This fea

* [[ObjectClass:ISFDB]] - used to conduct advance searching.

...Not terribly difficult for storage and display, but fairly problematic for searching. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 19:49, 11 Jul 2006 (CDT)

* ISBN searching is now available from the main navigation bar. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] ...vanced Search is still hopelessly messed up (until it's redone), publisher searching is now available from the main navigation bar, and some new publisher bibli

:::::I think we quite possibly need a "simplified title" field for searching on. This would be a form of the title with only ASCII characters, and any b

* Fixed title searching so that Essays. Articles, Reviews, and Interviews show up. * The new author searching algorithm is online. Performance seems adequate.

...allows looking up the complete contents in a single index entry instead of searching the entire database. This sped up the performance of plist.cgi by 270%. On

...we now have a record with no Author, which causes the following error when searching on "Lady Bluebeard": ...ed "Robert Silverberg (Introduction)" as one of the authors. Consequently, searching on "Silverberg" resulted in this "author" coming up along with the real Sil

| Allow searching ISFDB data via Google - Part 4 - Added this functionality to regular Searc | Allow searching titles based on user votes/ratings

| Allow searching ISFDB data via Google | Allow searching ISFDB data via Google - Part 2 - Fixed an HTML bug

...F imprint Orbit is listed separately here. The advanced site search allows searching by imprint but not by genre (only fiction in general). The UK Orchard Books ...ion are Ace Books and DAW, listed individually above. Their website allows searching for SFF across all imprints simultaneously.

::::::::: While "free choice" makes it harder to develop code that allows for searching for an issue (or range of issues) I see that the coding work is also not to

...standard search window but are stripped for advanced search. For example, searching for “Bestiary ” (without the quotes) from the standard search returns f ...nd 20013, now merged into this one) OPEN Reported Jul 17 2005 by hossman - searching by publications by publisher doesn't seem to work...

3. Searching by either standardized or author's spelling should find the author record.

* 20030 FIXED When searching for 'Zelazny' or 'Roger Zelazny' only a blank page is displayed even though :Searching on either 'Zelazny' or 'Roger Zelazny' pulls up his page for me. Have you t

...h the new ones. The only noticeable change should be the addition of power searching.

...f Note fields causes a couple of problems. The first one is the issue with searching which is mentioned in the Help paragraph quoted above. The second is the fa ...have a vanilla ASCII version that - I suspect - would be more amenable to searching on?

|Searching by ISBN does not always produce complete results

...9 (apostrophe) and 0146 (right single quote) be treated as equivalent when searching. I had searched for “The Serpent's Shadow” which found nothing but “ * 04/02/2006 - Jul 17 2005 by Peter D. Tillman: Also be nice if, on searching for a name, eg William Sanders, the 'ware took you straight to his page, ra

...search submissions - Part 1 - New option created; functionality limited to searching approved submissions by user name

:: But yes, it's a good example pub which is why I used it here. I also find searching for titles with "(r)" or "(tm)" in leads to titles that need to be reworked ...Smith titles may actually be here as E. E. 'Doc' Smith. Titles too: I try searching for Childhood's End and don't actually find the novel - just covers, essays

...ernet.dli.2015.44339 available] and I (V) could not find this story in it, searching for various possible wordings.

...US "Mr." and so on). Is there any possibility of ignoring punctuation when searching? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 14:50, 28 January 2018 (EST) ...toes (do languages have toes?) while still supporting language-independent searching.

:::::: ps: Searching Locus and the web for "first book publication" gives me the feeling that if ...etimes providing the individual story titles, but more often not. Someone searching for a specific title would come up with a blank if the separate story title

...important - we have enough arcane rules for editing, having weirdness for searching as well is not a good idea... :::::: Because they won’t solve the problem of a user searching for the magazine who does not understand our structure or is coming from Go

| Advanced Search doesn't support searching on '0000' | Leading and trailing spaces when searching

:::Is there a test/sandbox author that you have been using? Searching for “test” finds [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Lou_Volpentesta L ...keep the data accurate now and record a feature request for enabling ISBN searching that is robust against varying formats. [[User:Mike Christie|Mike Christie]

...here (exact, versus slightly looser punctuation-free, or case-insensitive, searching), but we're already experiencing some performance problems there. [[User:BL ...emoved). (These examples, by the way, all come from the first few pages of searching for novel titles with a colon in their names -- a few were actually NONFICT

...eral currencies which are in the database have not been documented. It was searching for how euros are entered when I discovered that there are two different me ...m fine with three months. As we may end up with more 9999 records I tested searching for them. Publication and title searches for the year 9999-00-00 return not

...go and the consensus seemed to be that we had numerous other problems with searching for non-ASCII characters, so it was a low priority. Still, a formal bug wou ...ing too onerous. If you try to put both ISBNs in the ISBN/Catalog# field, searching and displays will be awkward. If you use only one of the ISBNs and relegat

...er of a single book may find it here, but so would he also with one entry (searching either by title, publisher, or ISBN), what the owner is likely not to be ma ...users of the language, especially native speakers, may have gotten used to searching based on "Western" patterns due to how things had been presented online his

...using different ways of entering ellipses. This was causing problems with searching and indirectly increasing the likelihood of accidentally entering duplicate ...onize the languages represented in ISFDB and hopefully make data entry and searching easier.

* It facilitates searching the database, which is very helpful when performing tasks similar to what V ...omething and we vote or we wait for another two years to have another soul-searching round of discussion. As we're an english speaking outfit, the ISO norm is q

...ansliterated various ways. And I don't think we'll ever be able to improve searching enough to enter one form and have search find the others. So I'm quite happ ...a good thing to make an exception. I don't think there will ever be a user searching for "Fredric (William) Brown".

:::::I think we quite possibly need a "simplified title" field for searching on. This would be a form of the title with only ASCII characters, and any b ::::::::: While "free choice" makes it harder to develop code that allows for searching for an issue (or range of issues) I see that the coding work is also not to

...titles since at this time our software's support for them is very poor and searching is not supported. (This means that we will need to hunt down and transliter ...tters, we will have far too many entries in the Authors table, and someone searching for an actual author based on a partial name will get far too many hits, th

: That way anyone searching for this ISBN will find it and realize that it was "vaporware". ...cm books I mistakenly put in as pb -- would there be some efficient way of searching my edit history to pull up all the NewPub, AddPub, and ClonePub?) --[[User:

...o in these cases ('uncredited'? 'anonymous'? 'unknown'? 'dunno'?) and make searching for magazines a little easier (as basically you cannot find them via anythi ...g to find early publication records. (And in this case, my purpose was for searching out public domain items, for eventual inclusion into Gutenberg).[[User:Kpul

...entries again and again to know if they are missing artists completely and searching original makes sense or if original is already known, but cannot be linked