Open Editing Bugs

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Add new bugs at the top. Give the bug a number by incrementing the "next open bug number"; give it a status of OPEN, and then describe the problem.

Valid statuses are:

  • OPEN -- reported, not fixed or denied
  • WORKSFORME -- cannot reproduce the problem; no further research will be done
  • FIXED -- problem has been fixed
  • NAB -- the behavior described is not a bug, but is the intended behaviour of the software
  • WONTFIX -- the behavior described is not ideal, but will not be fixed for some reason
  • CLOSED -- the bug has been closed for some other reason. A bug that requires more information for a fix to be made may be closed, and can be reopened if the submitter adds the requested information.

Next open bug number: 10097

  • EditBug:10096 Clone Pub link doesn't redirect correctly after login OPEN If you are logged out, and try to perform some edit function, you will be redirected to the login screen. After logging in, there is a link "continue on to X" (where X is the page you were trying to get to). If, however, you clicked "clone this pub", after logging in X is the edit screen, rather than clone.Jefe 14:10, 13 Feb 2007 (CST)
  • EditBug:10091 Type field dropdown is inconsistent and EDITOR entries vanish OPEN From edit-pub when you do an [Add Title] the type field included EDITOR among the options. This type is not available if you just do an edit-pub and look at an existing content record. I had added contents to an anthology which happens to have two introductions. Usually for fields like the Type I hit the first letter and then look meaning on the first introduction I hit E, got ESSAY, and moved on to the second introduction where I hit E and did not look up meaning I did not notice it was on EDITOR instead of the assumed ESSAY. I entered the remaining titles, saved the publication and noticed the second introduction was missing. I still had the browser window open and so hit –back- so I could see if in fact I had entered the inro. Yep, but… in the Type field it says ANTHOLOGY. Hmm, that seems like an odd typo/mistake and so I hit –forward- to see the original XML blob where I see <cType>EDITOR</cType> which explained to me how I made the error.
  • EditBug:10083 Need CHAPTERBOOK type for contents OPEN An editor had sent in a delete request for the parent title of a chapterbook. It’s on hold at the moment and I took a look to see how/why this would happen. It turns out that chapter-books are handled like novels and non-fiction in that the parent title record is visible on the contents list when editing. That in itself is fine for those that understand what you should or should not do in terms of editing the title. The problem is the Type field for contents does not support CHAPTERBOOK. The parent type ended up changing to ANTHOLOGY by default and now since the title and pub types no longer match the parent title is visible in the contents when displaying the publication. The editor knew that was not right and tried to delete it. Marc Kupper 12:56, 10 Jan 2007 (CST)
(revision) It turns out that CHAPTERBOOK is not available in the edit-title drop down list either. The only way to create a CHAPTERBOOK type is via new-publication and CHAPTERBOOK is one of the type choices available. Once's it's created then when you try to do edit-title or edit-pub with the thing the title's type field will get changed to ANTHOLOGY by default. Marc Kupper 13:05, 10 Jan 2007 (CST)
  • 10063 OPEN Something strange is happening when I try to update this record. The cover artist should be "René Vidmer", with an acute accent, not "Rene Vidmer". I tried updated the publication directly, and also tried updating the cover art title record. In both cases, a direct update appeared to work but had no effect. I thought it was a problem with the update comparison seeing "Rene" and "René" as identical, so I edited it from "Rene" to "Renée", which worked, and then from "Renée" to "René" -- which changed it back to "Rene" again. Mike Christie (talk) 07:54, 23 Dec 2006 (CST)
  • 10059 OPEN Some authors have quite a few short fiction pieces that are entered as variant Titles of themselves and have another duplicate entry as well, e.g. see Gardner_Dozois's biblio. All of his stories that are listed [as by Gardner Dozois] are affetced and have to be fixed by merging them with the other version. I suspect that this problem may have been caused by somebody (me?) merging "Gordon Dozois" with "Gordon R. Dozois" (I believe I played with his biblio at one point), but I am not sure. Ahasuerus 17:08, 19 Dec 2006 (CST)
  • 10037 OPEN Sometimes there are two+ Author records for the same author. Typically, one+ of them will be misspelled. If you try to change the spelling of the Author's name to the correct spelling using "Author Data", the system will let you do it, but then you will end up with two Author records with the exact same name. This will cause various problems since you will only be able to find the data associated with the first record that the system finds. We may want to add a check to make sure that we are not creating duplicate Author names. Ahasuerus 19:55, 13 Sep 2006 (CDT)
  • 10014 OPEN I'm having some trouble with a Russian-language version of Starman Jones, publication HHHPWLVGLD2002, "Астронавт Джонс". (I think it transliterates to "Astronavt Dzhons"), I entered the publisher as "Центрполиграф", and it appears that was in the submission confirmation screen, but it shows up as "Центрполи&". See the submission confirmation page for Publication Update #38462. Should I just not be trying to use Cyrillic at all? grendel|khan 17:28, 16 May 2006 (CDT)
  • Have I mentioned that I hate unicode? Alvonruff 05:57, 17 May 2006 (CDT)
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