Is the local search for ISBNs broken?

biegel

Hey,

there are books with correct ISBNs in my collection e.g.:

9783492211628 and 978-3-492-21162-8

Searching for it with the plain number will not show any result.

Searching with number and "-" in it will show correct books (even when there ISBN is written without "-" in the Database).

I would like to have the same results in both cases, because my ISBN Scanner is unfortunately giving the plain number. Though adding new books to the Database searching with the plain number works like a charme.

Is it a bug or does anyone has a hint for me?
Thanks a lot!
B.

adamsmith

You mean not adding them by identifier but literally doing a search using advanced search or all fields and tags? Did that ever use to work?
I'd assume Zotero just searches the ISBN field like a simple string, so anything that's changed, including hyphens, will cause it to not find results.

biegel

Yes, I'm doing a search in my local library for ISBN without the minus sign. That gives me no result. It doesn't matter if the book has it's ISBN with or without "-".

The other way round are searchable with "-" ISBN, even when they are saved without "-".

As the ISBN EAN standard don't define the minus sign as necessary. I would expect both searches to work.