Easy adding of parts from collections

felwert

When adding multiple pieces from a collection, it's very frustrating to always write the whole editor, book title, place, date, etc. stuff that all these entries have in common.

I know that there's an ongoing discussion about the complex issue of hierarchical entries, but I want to suggest a very simple yet effective approach: A book/collection should have a button "add item" (or something, I don't know the proper english term for a part of a collection). When pressing that button, the following should happen:

a) a new "book section" entry should be created, with the fields populated from the original "book" entry (moving the "title" field to the "book title" field),
b) a reference should point to the original book entry (thus having a nice overview over all parts of that book in the "related items" tab).

I think this should not be too hard to implement but would make life much easier in some situations.

Thanks,
Frederik

adamsmith

sounds interesting:
As a note - instead of adding all the lines you can duplicate and item and then just change title, author and pages.

felwert

Yes, sure, thanks for the hint. Duplicating the items does of course reduce the amount of things to type. Nevertheless, I think introducing a concept of a »collection« consisting of several »parts« would be a nice addition, even on such a basic level.