Hello, (Apologies for the slow reply. Just got back from some time off.)
>> problem in extracting them because when I try to edit the author in the book >> record, only a limited number of Mary Hamiltons shows up in the drop down >> field, NOT the full list of Mary Hamiltons. Because the Mary Hamilton I am >> looking for has only published a few works, she is not on this list! > > Yes, this problem is plaguing me also. That's a bug, I think. We should be showing any/all author matches in the dropdown list. It *appears* that the list is limiting itself to 10 results at the moment, whereas an author search turns up 47 hits: http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=mary+hamilton >> It would be much easier if I could specify the exact >> author I am looking for in the author field by using the OL author record >> number That's a good idea. >> it would be nice if the author drop down list included the author's >> birth and death dates, We can do that. Thanks for this great feedback - it's very useful, and we'll try our best to make it so you don't have to do any workarounds, creative though they are! Cheers, george _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
