How to avoid manually inputting data for book sections...?

cpau · November 11, 2009

I often work with books that comprise a collection of essays. When this is the case, I start by creating a new item "BOOK" and it is easy to capture information about the book from the library catalog. However, I would also like to create separate items under the BOOK SECTIONS type for individual authors but I am wondering how to carry over information about the book (title, publication, ISBN etc.) from the original BOOK Item without having to manually retype for each individual essay and author. Any suggestions?

ajlyon · November 11, 2009

The most common solution, and what I do, is to right-click on the entry for the larger book and make a duplicate entry, then I change the new entry into the Book Section type cut-and-paste the title into the Book Title section and clear the Short Title section. Then you can make the necessary number of duplicates of this book section entry and change the specific details of each as necessary.

cpau · November 12, 2009

Thanks, that worked a treat!

naccho survive and t · November 17, 2009

I am doing something similar and I am also linking the chapter entries to the main book entry, just so there is an easy way to see all the chapters.