remove series relationship doesn't work

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remove series relationship doesn't work

1amanda4242
Edited: Apr 24, 2022, 2:16 pm

On the Blood Books series I marked Morganville Vampires, InCryptid, and Otherworld as having no relationship with the series and they disappeared from the Relationships/Combine page, but they are still showing as overlapping on the Blood Books series page.

Also, if the dismissal does work, there's no way to change it if you made an error or the work that was causing the overlap has been removed from the series. The Wolves Chronicles has The Tripods stuck there despite the overlapping work being removed.

2gilroy
Apr 24, 2022, 2:28 pm

Does removing the related anthology and putting it back into the series make them reappear?

3amanda4242
Apr 24, 2022, 2:42 pm

>2 gilroy: I added a book from The Tripods to Wolves Chronicles and it didn't change anything.

4Nevov
Apr 24, 2022, 5:13 pm

I've experienced the same thing with "has no relationship with", when it's no longer appropriate to remain there after a work removal, and have tried a few different things, but could not find a way to remove it. Or in a case where there actually is a genuine overlap, it seems not possible to get it to reset into "overlaps with" either, it seems to remember the "has no relationship with" with no way to dismiss and remove it.

5amanda4242
May 13, 2022, 1:50 pm

bump

6knerd.knitter
May 27, 2022, 10:06 am

>1 amanda4242: It looks like if you put the "No relationship" relationship on both series, then it won't show in the Overlap; I'm not sure if that's intended since it seems to me it ought to be bi-directional.

7amanda4242
May 27, 2022, 10:22 am

>6 knerd.knitter: It ought to be bi-directional since all the other relationship settings are. We should also be able to change it in case of error.

8knerd.knitter
May 27, 2022, 2:42 pm

Changes have been made here. "No relationship" relationships now show on the edit relationship page but not on the main page; and series with no relationship should now be excluded from overlaps with for both series. Please re-open and let me know if anything still looks wrong.

9amanda4242
May 27, 2022, 3:02 pm

>8 knerd.knitter: Looks like it's fixed. Thank you!

10Nevov
May 28, 2022, 10:26 pm

Agree, seems to be functionally working. Thanks! Now to wrap our heads around when to select "No relationship" and when to use "Dismiss and remove relationship" :-P

11knerd.knitter
May 30, 2022, 11:29 am

"Dismiss and remove relationship" sets the relationship to "No relationship"