Choral Public Domain Library

I was hoping it's possible to add the contributor to the search criteria. For example, one could search for all 5 voice or Renaissance works from a certain contributor. Thank you.

Thanks for your suggestion, I'll check the possibility of implementing it.

I've just made some modifications for that, but I'm not very familiar with that page, so, Carlos, please check and possibly improve...

Max

Max, the search by Editor field seems to be working just fine. Thanks!!!

choralia wrote:I've just made some modifications for that, but I'm not very familiar with that page, so, Carlos, please check and possibly improve...

Thanks Max, looks like you've already got the hang of it.

The flash strikes again...

I'm not totally happy with my implementation because one has always to specify at least one category further to the editor's name, which is not completely logical as the editor's name is also handled through a category itself. I'm not sure whether the editor's name can be somehow considered as equivalent to other categories, and thus allow the user to only specify the editor's name.

Max

choralia wrote:I'm not sure whether the editor's name can be somehow considered as equivalent to other categories, and thus allow the user to only specify the editor's name.

Max, I don't see any problem with this, so I've allowed searches by editor's name only.

As an experiment, I've replaced the field where the editor's name should be typed in by a drop-down list with names pre-loaded, so as to avoid typing errors. How do you all like it?

carlos wrote:How do you all like it?

For me, that's great. Well done, Carlos. What about adding an ordermethod = sortkey in the dpl query, so that editor names are ordered by surname?

Max

choralia wrote:What about adding an ordermethod = sortkey in the dpl query, so that editor names are ordered by surname?

I particularly prefer it ordered by name just because by typing a letter the list jumps to the first name starting by that letter (which is good, considering that we have almost one thousand editors in the list); but if others prefer it by surname as you suggest, it's also fine by me.

That choice will probably depend on the user's cultural background: anglophone countries seem to prefer lists ordered by surname, while other cultures (as the lusophone countries) prefer to sort lists by given name.

Thanks to both Max and Carlos for the tweaks.