[Tellico-users] Managing Anthologies

Robby Stephenson robby at periapsis.org
Fri Aug 5 01:55:19 UTC 2016


On 08/02/2016 09:54 AM, Xavier Brochard wrote:
> Le 30 juillet, 18:09:37 Robby Stephenson a écrit :
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Josep <josep2006 at ya.com> wrote:
>>> In a book collection, I'd make a table to list different titles from the
>>> same author.
>>>
>>> If there are many authors, it is possible find them in a search, but not
>>> at index.
>>>
>>> I'd like make a full list of a some Anthologies contents, and would be
>>> fantastic crossing authors from each Anthology with the books from
>>> themselves.
>>>
>>> I don't have any idea about how to make it.
>>
>> You need a field for the list of titles, with the Author listed first and
>> indicated as "Format as name". Then you can group by People and have the
>> Authors from the list field combined with the regular Author field. That
>> will also include Editors, but hopefully, that does the trick for you.
>
> I use the same trick to list various names associated with a book, but none of
> them appear when I group by People.
> The difference is that I list them in rows first like this :
>
> Translator	Photographer	Editor
> name1	name2		name2
> name4	name5
> etc.
>
> Tellico 2.3.9 with KDE 4.14.2

The grouping only takes values from the first column, and works with the 
"People" group if you have "Format by Name" checked for the Table field.

Robby



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