Problem and confusion : impossible to edit some page to attribuate works to author

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Problem and confusion : impossible to edit some page to attribuate works to author

2kristilabrie
apr 13, 2023, 9:14 am

Which title are you trying to attribute, to which author (which number on that division page)?

3DuncanHill
apr 13, 2023, 9:46 am

>2 kristilabrie: None of the titles currently under unknown can be assigned as they never seem show up in the list on the author split page, regardless of the Page numbers at the top of the list, clicking which seems to make very little, if any, difference. Another user asked about it in Combiners on 10th April https://www.librarything.com/topic/350023

4kristilabrie
Bewerkt: apr 13, 2023, 10:17 am

Okay, so:

To reproduce:
1. go to https://www.librarything.com/author/steinerrudolf - note the 8 works under the "unknown" division for the author.
2. click to "edit the division" and go to https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=steinerrudolf&page=assi...
3. click to view page 2, get to https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=steinerrudolf&page=assi...

Bug 1: The URL linked to the number 2 on the page should be https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=steinerrudolf&page=assi..., but instead it's at https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=steinerrudolf&page=assi... so you're still at page 1. (The "1" is bolded.)

4. click to view page 3, get to https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=steinerrudolf&page=assi... which puts you on page 2. (You can force the URL to https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=steinerrudolf&page=assi... to view page 3.)
5. click back to view page 1, get to https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=steinerrudolf&page=assi..., where page 1 is now getting counted as "pageN=0"

Bug 2: Page 1 is getting counted at "pageN=0" and "pageN=1". We should probably be just using one numbering system.

Bug 3: Looking at the works on all of the 'separate' pages, they appear to be the same. I can only see one unknown work for all 3 pages, The Riddle of Humanity: Spiritual Background of Human History by Rudolf Steiner (1990-11-30).

There may be too many works for the division page to be able to display them properly.