TinyCat does not display Physical Description

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TinyCat does not display Physical Description

17PondsNC
Jan 16, 12:16 pm

The import to LibraryThing contains Physical Description. (MARC 300) It was successsfully added. I can see the information inLibraryThing > Book Detail.
In TinyCat Admin > Settings > Detail Page Sections "Physical description" is selected.
The Physical Description in LibraryThing does not display in TinyCat

(- I made sure to refresh TC after moving Physical Description to the Non-display entries at the bottom of the page, and then moving it back up to the fields to display)

Help !!!

2lesmel
Jan 16, 12:44 pm

From the help pages:

Physical Description
uses pagination and height from LibraryThing's Physical description fields

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/TinyCat:_Settings_%C2%BB_Detail_Page_Sec...

37PondsNC
Jan 19, 7:22 am

I have a word document showing 1) Admin - the settings 2)TinyCat -No Physical Description 3) LibraryThing - Physical Description.
Is there an email I can send this to?

4bnielsen
Edited: Jan 19, 7:39 am

>3 7PondsNC: Could you give an example of a book that shows this error? I looked at the books in the 7PondsNC account and very few of them had any dimensions shown.

And @ZephCraven is a good guess as to who you might want to send the word document to. (But I think a single example here will also do the trick.)

5ZephCraven
Jan 19, 10:17 am

>4 bnielsen: Yeah feel free to email it to me at tinycat@librarything.com! An example would indeed be helpful.

Thanks all!

6bnielsen
Jan 31, 8:44 am

>5 ZephCraven: I found an example in my own catalogue.

https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bnielsen/item/122931246

I think this happens to all books where Pages start with Roman numerals. In casu: v; 160

7ZephCraven
Feb 2, 4:06 pm

>6 bnielsen: Hi bnielsen,

It turns out this is an issue with MARC import taking all related data (usually from MARC Field #300) and placing it all into the LibraryThing field "Physical Summary." Currently, TinyCat does not pull from that field at all. We're working on an update for this and will post about it when there's a solid update!

Thanks for your help, and let me know if there's any other issue with your record ( https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bnielsen/item/122931246) that I'm not seeing!

8bnielsen
Feb 3, 1:31 am

>7 ZephCraven: Good explanation but why does all the records without Roman numerals get Physical Description displayed?

Here's an example from my Tinycat:
https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bnielsen/item/27985602

it shows Physical description
747 p.; 17.4 cm

but

https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bnielsen/item/122931246

doesn't.

9ZephCraven
Feb 3, 8:24 am

Hmmm I'm actually seeing a physical description displayed for both!

I see:

En Historie om hvorledes Fa'er ganske alene klarede det hele og andre Historier = Physical description: iv, 160 p.; 18.8 cm

The Tommyknockers = Physical description: 747 p.; 17.4 cm

10bnielsen
Feb 3, 8:55 am

Yes, so do I now. Maybe something just changed for the better? Oh well. I'll stop complaining then :-)