Help:Screen:EditSeries

In the series bibliography display, there is a navbar link to "Series Data". Clicking on this link will display the Series Editor screen. This screen has two fields: Name and Parent. Both fields refer to series names; this screen allows you to define nested series, by specifying that one series contains another.

The ISFDB supports any depth of series nesting, so you can create a series that is part of a series, which is part of a series, which is part of a ... ad infinitum. One thing that is not supported is having the same title belong to more than one series. This can be a problem in certain cases when a book clearly belongs to two or more series, but at this point there is no workaround. Also, a series can have only one name, so if two or more names are equally popular (e.g. one name is preferred by the author, another one by the publisher, and a third one is the one that is commonly used in SF encyclopedias), the only option is to list them all in a slash delimited format, e.g. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1455

In order to create a "superseries", display the series data screen for that series. The parent field will be blank. Enter the parent series in the parent field, and your series will become part of the parent series. You can then repeat the process for all constituent series.

Please note that at this point there is no way to make constituent series appear in a pre-defined order within their superseries.

Note that:

• Changing the Name field changes the name of the series for all books currently in this series.
• Changing the Parent field does NOT change the name of the parent series.
• If the Parent exists, changing the Parent field relinks the Named series to that parent.
• If the Parent does not exist, a new Parent series will be created, and the Named series will be linked to that parent.