missing work titles when adding works to talks via the the "About" dialog

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missing work titles when adding works to talks via the the "About" dialog

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1gangleri
Edited: Mar 23, 2012, 1:37 pm

?searchtype=talk&search=aboutBox, ?searchtype=talk&search=touchstonesBox (#aboutBox, #touchstonesBox)

Hi! Please see /topic/134441#aboutBox#aboutBox "Kiamaniere traduki Librarything-on?". The "About" container shows:
About
Antoni Grabowski
Kabe
(personaly I see the "I own this book" icon) - no title is shown
(personaly I see the "I own this book" icon) - no title is shown
L. L. Zamenhof
Add/change…

Please confirm. Thanks in advance!

P.S. fixed html
P.S.S. added "#aboutBox"

2timspalding
Mar 26, 2012, 1:55 pm

What?

3brightcopy
Mar 26, 2012, 2:46 pm

In my tests, I see the work title just fine. For example, the Children of Dune About on this one (note to Tim: when you expand the About feature to actually show up on Work pages, please exclude Bug Collectors!).

So I'm not sure what the problem is, either.

4lorax
Edited: Mar 26, 2012, 5:21 pm

It's not so much that About should exclude Bug Collectors, as that for some reason gangleri insists on adding touchstones only via the "About" box rather than via the usual syntax. He does that everywhere, from what I can understand, so that's not going to solve the problem.

Edited to add: That's not to say there's a good reason to include Bug Collectors, just that I don't think it's a general problem so much as a personal idiosyncracy of one person.

5brightcopy
Mar 26, 2012, 5:20 pm

#4 by @lorax> Sorry for the confusion. Excluding BC was a general aside not necessarily related to his activities. It's just that Abouts in BC are highly unlikely to be "true" Abouts.

6gangleri
Mar 26, 2012, 5:40 pm

Note: This bug can not reproduced with authors including multiple combined author urls. Especially not if the (lowercase) url SmithJohn is combined with JonSmith. Not sure why it was required to select test authors having just one work and just one title in the database. It happened that during the tests the LT system was "learning" and remembering what authors I already added at other threads. I spend a lot of time tu duplicate the behaviour.

7brightcopy
Mar 26, 2012, 5:42 pm

#6 by @gangleri> You have not really answered Tim's "What?". He set the status to "Needs discussion". This (generally) means no work will be done on this bug until you come back and give an actual understandable way of explaining and reproducing the bug.

8timspalding
Sep 26, 2012, 11:36 pm

Gangleri. The problem is merely presentation and language. I'm sorry about that, but I really don't get what you're saying sometimes. I need it said another way, preferably slowly, carefully and with only the details necessary. I regret picking on you about this, but I really can't follow you sometimes.

9timspalding
Apr 23, 2014, 11:05 pm

Closing.