This posting outlines how a "limit to full text" functionality was implemented in the "Catholic Portal's" version of VuFind.

While there are many dimensions of the Catholic Portal, one of its primary components is a sort of union catalog of rare and infrequently held materials of a Catholic nature. This union catalog is comprised of metadata from MARC records, EAD files, and OAI-PMH data repositories. Some of the MARC records include URLs in 856$u fields. These URLs point to PDF files that have been processed with OCR. The Portal's indexer has been configured to harvest the PDF documents, when it comes across them. Once harvested the OCR is extracted from the PDF file, and the resulting text is added to the underlying Solr index. The values of the URLs are saved to the Solr index as well. Almost by definition, all of the OAI-PMH content indexed by Portal is full text; almost all of the OAI-PMH content includes pointers to images or PDF documents.

Consequently, if a reader wanted to find only full text content, then it would be nice to: 1) do a search, and 2) limit to full text. And this is exactly what was implemented. The first step was to edit Solr's definiton of the url field. Specifically, its "indexed" attribute was changed from false to true. Trivial. Solr was then restarted.

The second step was to re-index the MARC content. When this is complete, the reader is able to search the index for URL content -- "url:*". In other words, find all records whose URL equals anything.

The third step was to understand that all of the local VuFind OAI-PMH identifiers have the same shape. Specifically, they all include the string "oai". Consequently, the very astute reader could find all OAI-PMH content with the following query: "id:*oai*".

The third step was to turn on a VuFind checkbox option found in facets.ini. Specifically, the "[CheckboxFacets]" section was augmented to include the following line:

id:*oai* OR url:* = "Limit to full text"

When this was done a new facet appeared in the VuFind interface.

Finally, the whole thing comes to fruition when a person does an initial search. The results are displayed, and the facets include a limit option. Upon selection, VuFind searches again, but limits the query by "id:*oai* OR url:*" -- only items that have URLs or come from OAI-PMH repositories. Pretty cool.

Kudos go to Demian Katz for outlining this process. Very nice. Thank you!