Encoding in external applications, entry updates and more...

[Robby Stephenson]

On Monday 05 January 2009, Raphaël Fischer wrote:
> - I have recently noticed that update now works for custom and comics
> collections, as I was asking for a while ago (
> http://www.nabble.com/Updating-entries-does-not-get-information-td1198252
>5.html here ).
> I checked that my scripts (for boardgames and french comics) do work :
> they worked fine. Great, thanks !
> (I did not noticed the information in the changelog.)
> How does update now works ?

For generic collections, the title gets a weight of 2 and every other fields 
gets a weight of 1, the sum of weight*score must be > 10 to be a possible 
match. It was first in version 1.2.14. 

The changelog from 2007-08-03:
 * Updated entry updating to work with all collection types

> - When updating an entry that returns more than one choice, only title
> and description are displayed. Sometimes, it is not sufficient to decide
> what choice is relevent. Could it be possible, to replace this small
> window by one similar to the reseach window, with access to all
> information instead of only title and description (are to choose what
> "description" should be) ?

Good idea...

> - Concerning the search interface. Only one argument can be sent to the
> script at a time : title or author or whatever. I would find it useful to
> enable advanced search to send several arguments to the script.

For the initial search,. I guess there could be some AND boxes to combine 
searches, like kbib, for example.
http://users.tpg.com.au/thachly/kbib/remotedatabasesearch.png

For updates, you can already do multiple arguments...

Robby