Search filter

[Lucas Silveira]

Dear colleagues,

I am using version 7.5 and I have a question. In the filter search, when I select to search by author, I noticed that DSpace does not retrieve authors with accents in their names. For example, if the name is "José" and I include the "é" in the search, it does not return any results, while for any unaccented word, it correctly retrieves authors containing the search string. I tested this on the demo and noticed the same behavior.

Has anyone experienced this? Do you know if there is any configuration that can resolve this?

Thank you in advance for your response.

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Lucas,

This appears to be working properly on the demo site (https://demo.dspace.org), if I'm understanding correctly.  So, that may imply this issue has been fixed in 7.6.x.

On the demo site, there's currently an Item with an author named  Avilés, Raúl

I can successfully use the Browse by Author for that author: https://demo.dspace.org/browse/author?value=Avil%C3%A9s,%20Ra%C3%BAl&bbm.return=2

I can also us the "Author" search filter with that author name and find the Item: https://demo.dspace.org/search?query=&f.author=Avil%C3%A9s,%20Ra%C3%BAl,equals

My best guess is this may have already been fixed, so you may just need to upgrade.

Tim

[Lucas Silveira]

Thank you very much for responding,
Do you think if we update the backend to 7.6.1 it would solve the problem? because we already implemented the layout for version 7.5, and I think it would take a while to adapt the front-end from version 7.5 to 7.6.1

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Lucas,

In DSpace 7.x, it's important to always run the same version of frontend & backend because all 7.x releases added new features.  So, if you upgraded the backend, you must also upgrade the frontend.  We cannot support running a 7.5 frontend running against a 7.6.1 backend, because there were new features / major changes between 7.5 and 7.6.  These new features may cause odd behaviors on an older version of the frontend.

Tim