My experiences with tellico, a few bugs and possible enhancements

[Jens Seidel]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:09:39AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 07:23:45PM -0800, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 February 2007, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > > * I changed the type of a catalog number field from text to number and

> > >   fields. But the field value in the top right widget (column view)
> > >   vanished!
> > 
> > Vanished? Meaning you can't right-click and show it?

Please note that I mean the field value 17a vanished, not the complete
entry. But I cannot reproduce it ...
I suggest you verify field entries after each change of type.

> > >   - Split field into a number ("17") and a text field ("a") and display
> > >     both always side on side to get "17 a"
> > 
> > Possibly, plus you could create a dependant field to combine the two.

I tried it and it works. Please note that the default description for
this new field is %{Nummer}%{Nummernsuffix} (German variables), whereas
title still defaults to %{year} %{denomination} %{description} (English
variables). Since you write translated field names into XML this is a
little bit inconsistent (and it's hard to guess English variable names
in a localized environment).

I also noticed that the content of %{Nummernsuffix} (a text field) and
the title are capitalized but I selected no formatting *and* disabled
automatic formatting in the config dialog. So I get 17A which is
different from 17a.

Jens