Quoting Sarah Breau <[email protected]>: > > Patrick, my workaround is to edit the author name by adding > something unique to it (e.g. change it to "David Clarke this is the > one"), then wait for the database to update, then go into the work > and change the author to "David Clarke this is the one" then wait > for the database to update, then go back into the author record and > change the author name back. It takes FOREVER but it works every > time. ;-)
Wow. > > Karen, I don't see how your workaround will work. OL only shows a > certain number of authors in the author drop-down field, and if > there are dozens with your author's name and your author only wrote > one or two books, your author will not show up on that list. So it sounds like there needs to be a way to expand that list, a kind of "more..." link. Or, as Patrick noted, to be able to input the actual author ID. (At which point the system might be able to show you the display form so you can tell you got it right.) I had mistakenly thought the issue was about author merging. Sorry. > Merging is imperfect because when you do an author merge, OL does > not change the author field in all the works to the same author > record, it just groups author records together. This has caused me > problems. It is better to empty out all the author records first by > switching all the works to the correct author, and then do the merge. I'm trying to picture this. I can imagine that different works for the same author point to different author entries... but it seems that when those author entries are merged, that merge should affect all works. Nope, I can't get a mental image of this one. I hope someone who knows the answer posts! kc > Of course, this would not work in Patrick's case because there are > too many author records to select the one he wants in the author > field... > > I would say that after the inability to merge works, this is the > biggest problem I have in editing on OL. > > Sarah > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
