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1gangleri
Topic filter for data sources describes an error during import.
What happens today is that one will first import an erroneous data record and correct ithe field values in edit mode.
What about having a « preview » mode (button) which allows to preview, correct, Unicode normalize the fields and decide later if the book should be added or not.
The result will be the same as if the book is edited later.
The benefit for LT will be:
#1: no erroneous author names, erroneous book titles etc. will be imported into the system
#2: users will have the possibility to see all fields (not only a brief summary), one can see if there are more books in the library from the same author, if other language variants are in the library already etc.
What happens today is that one will first import an erroneous data record and correct ithe field values in edit mode.
What about having a « preview » mode (button) which allows to preview, correct, Unicode normalize the fields and decide later if the book should be added or not.
The result will be the same as if the book is edited later.
The benefit for LT will be:
#1: no erroneous author names, erroneous book titles etc. will be imported into the system
#2: users will have the possibility to see all fields (not only a brief summary), one can see if there are more books in the library from the same author, if other language variants are in the library already etc.
2brightcopy
I just got finished with my library (woo hoo!) My last batch of books were all book club editions. This manual searches and then trying to find the one with the right publication info. Most of the time I found them, sometimes I didn't. There was a Theodore Sturgeon book club omnibus that was in there in two horribly different ways - lots of extraneous text in one and a typo in the other ("Cosmic" spelled "Xosmic"). I choose the mispelled one, which I then had to pull up the page and fix. Of course, the work wasn't right, so then I had to go pull up the authors page and combine the correct work with my typoed work.
Would have been a lot nicer if I could have just fixed the typo before clicking to add the book...
Would have been a lot nicer if I could have just fixed the typo before clicking to add the book...
3jjmcgaffey
Yeah, but again, either every book found in a search has to have this 'edit mode' generated for it, or there's an extra step between finding and adding a book on every add. Either it slows LT down or it slows down adding books (or both). It would be, abstractly, nice, but I don't think it would be worth the extra effort in practice.
5brightcopy
3> Errr, not really. That's what javascript is for. I don't know if you're a programmer, but you should look at the code behind the scenes for that page sometime. I'll probably whip up a greasemonkey script to do what I'm talking about when I'm not trying to catch up on my real job . It would be even easier for LT to do it.
4> Had I thought about the fact that it wouldn't auto-combine because of the typo, then yeah, I would have done it that way. Though that means I'd have to enter author, publication date, publication string and primary language, so it's a big hassle either way. The best third option would have been to correct the typo before adding it.
4> Had I thought about the fact that it wouldn't auto-combine because of the typo, then yeah, I would have done it that way. Though that means I'd have to enter author, publication date, publication string and primary language, so it's a big hassle either way. The best third option would have been to correct the typo before adding it.
