Problems with ISBNs

[Robby Stephenson]

On Friday 15 December 2006 13:16, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> First of all, half the time the search comes back "itemid not found"
> even though I can look it up manually by ISBN on Amazon. Obviously, this
> is not right.

Examples would be good. The "itemid not found" is the error string directly 
from amazon. Keep in mind that the national sites don't always have the 
same results as the US site.

> Secondly, I get pretty much no results at all when using ISBN's and
> selecting Library of Congress. Is this normal?

No, not at all. Examples please?

> And finally, if I select multiple ISBNs, and some of them have problems,
> Tellico won't process the rest of the list. It should process what it
> can, and then do something with the remaining values. In particular,
> going back through a large list of ISBNs and figuring out which one(s)
> didn't go through, and then having to reenter them one at a time until I
> find the problem value, is pretty gimpy. It should really do something
> like processing all the ISBNs it can, and then show another edit dialog
> for the ones it can't handle.

I'll check that, and it's supposed to work as you suggest. Any ISBN values 
that are not found are listed in a dialog after the search is over, or at 
least, they're supposed to be.

Robby