DDC Column Link to MDS Table Broken (Your Books)

Books that do not have DDC info in the Book details (only the Work details) are not linking to the MDS (Melvil-Dewey System) Table in Your Books.

Examples:
OK - The Last Unicorn -- "813/.54" in my catalog
OK - Gathering Blue -- "813.54" in my catalog
Broken - The Kryptos Trap -- "813.54" in my catalog (only in Work details, not Book details).

I suspect that's because (as you know) the book-level and work-level DDC can vary, and the expected behavior is to take you to the page for your own book-level DDC, rather than routing you to the work-level one which may differ. So it's passing along the null here, which of course fails. Falling back to the work-level in cases where there is no book-level would be reasonable, but it certainly shouldn't do so when a book-level classification is available.

>2 lorax: I didn't know this off-hand, but that definitely makes sense.

It would be nice to have it "fall back" to the work level if book-level DDC is not available. This may be how it's worked before, since another member told us it was working differently for them. Possibly a bug (in the different behavior sense).

Is there actually a bug here or is this an RSI? I'm inclined to the latter, but this should either be bumped or closed.

>5 Collectorator:

The one I bumped, you mean?

It's only a problem if you expect a fallback (use work-level Dewey when book-level Dewey is absent) that isn't actually there. It's not at all strange and I personally don't think it's a problem.

ah, thanks for clarifying Collectorator and lorax.

>7 Collectorator: You're right. If I click to edit the DDC in my catalog and re-save it, the link to the DDC table works fine.

Incidentally having issues with all DDC links in my catalog unless I edit/save them right now, but that's a separate thing...

closing!

This was actually a problem where the green links did not link to the chart; it has been fixed.