#3967 - Ability to link to multiple authors

By Adam Edington
Added 25th Nov 2019, 8:23 AM
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Identifier	#3967
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Ability to link to multiple authors
Status	Open
Handling member	Deleted
Version	10.0.28
Addon	catalogues
Description	Currently we can link to an Author, but for content with multiple authors this would require replication of that field.
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By Guest posted 25th Nov 2019, 10:51 AM

I'm going to keep this open, but can't you just add an author record that is a combined name? That's a workaround, but I also think an industry standard for documenting authorship, e.g.:
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AIan+Jackson%2C+Steve+%26+Livingstone&s=relevancerank&text=Ian+Jackson%2C+Steve+%26+Livingstone&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

By Guest posted 25th Nov 2019, 10:53 AM

Actually my example isn't good because Amazon is actually storing the authors in separate records, lol. But I am imagining a million book or music databases out there that use a single field.

By Guest posted 25th Nov 2019, 11:37 AM

A single field could work, but combining other data beyond the name is likely trickier (in my mind anyway). Will give it a go though ;)

#3967 - Ability to link to multiple authors

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