Hi Becky,

 

When searching on terms linked to the thesaurus you can include narrower terms to your search to ensure that you’re getting records with terms linked further down your hierarchy. To do this from Advanced query you can check box under the # sign. From the query assistant, you can check the ‘Include narrower terms’ checkbox.

 

Cheers,

Graeme

 

Graeme Housego |  Client Services Specialist

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Hi Everyone;

 

I was wondering if there was a way to search specific levels in the TMS hierarchy modules. For example, We are a natural history museum, so we have a taxonomy hierarchy that goes through kingdom to species levels. If we executed a term search through this hierarchy, it will only pull matching terms at the lowest level. This means that when searching for a term at the family level (ie Vauxiidae), it pulls only those records that have been identified to that level, and nothing identified further down the hierarchy (ie to the genus Vauxia). We are encountering similar issues with the geology module.

We had previously been using attributes which are individually searchable, but had recently decided to switch to hierarchies and so we are somewhat new to their functionality. Is searching within these hierarchies possible if the search term is embedded within the hierarchy? I’ve included the query that we use to search for these terms.

Feel free to contact me off of the listserv (email: [log in to unmask]).

 

 

 

Thanks in advance;

 

Rebecca Sanchez
Collections Assistant
Telephone: 403-820-6230 | Fax: 403-823-7131
Email: [log in to unmask]

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Box 7500 Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0 Canada

www.tyrrellmuseum.com

 

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