autocomplete on surnames in advanced search

Jon Rubin

Hi, at the moment if I'm doing an advanced search on creator and I start typing in the name it only offers correct suggestions if I start typing the first name, which I rarely do (I don't think of authors in terms of their first names)

e.g.

I want to search for Harry Austyn Wolfson

if I start typing 'Harry' then a list of names will come up, including the one I want, but if I start typing 'Wolfson' then initially I get 'Wolfgang' until I get past the 's' obviously, but no Wolfson.

Hope that's clear - but some way (hidden preference?) to tell the autocomplete to look at last names instead of first names would be great.

Thanks, Jon

adamsmith

completely agree. The whole creator search in the advanced search is bizarre, e.g. the fact that

Creator -- is -- Smith, Adam

doesn't find anything, only

Creator -- is -- Adam Smith
does.

dstillman

if I start typing 'Harry' then a list of names will come up, including the one I want, but if I start typing 'Wolfson' then initially I get 'Wolfgang' until I get past the 's' obviously, but no Wolfson.

Fixed in the 4.0 Beta. Thanks.

Jon Rubin

thanks Dan