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combining advice

1EGBERTINA
mayo 23, 2021, 6:27 pm

hello, in another post I was working on combining the best in children's books series. someone advised on methodology and I began. trying to be helpful, I tried to do more than just the minimal for my own benefit.

so, after you have combined- it gives you the option to separate out. because it is an anthology of 42 books, most of which are sorted by number, I thought it would be helpful to remove all books labeled #1 from books labeled #5. but when you come back in- they are all there again. oy.

then there are some columns that have various numbers. and only one of the number that you are working on. so I separated out all the wrong numbers- but- when I come back to join the correct number to its compadres- it is back in the same stack that I just allegedly separated. double oy.

want to help- but it is fighting me. from my perspective it would be nice if all the #1's stayed with the number #1's. and didn't crop up in the other numbers if they have been separated??

suggestions?

thank u

2Aquila
mayo 23, 2021, 7:14 pm

Separating can be a two step process - if you click separate on a book combination page it opens a box at the top of the page to confirm the separation, and then takes you to a page listing the two products, is it possible you didn't see the top of the page?

3norabelle414
mayo 23, 2021, 10:29 pm

The first step is to click "separate" next to each edition that you want to separate. Then you'll have to scroll to the top of the page where you'll see a list of all the editions you clicked to separate. Then click the link that says "separate these editions"

Then you should get a confirmation page that says "Separated!" at the top and lists the original work and the new work that was separated from the original work.

4EGBERTINA
mayo 23, 2021, 11:10 pm

Here is what I saw:

I clicked on the word separate. That placed the item in a box above. After I filled the box above with several incorrect volumes, there was a button below. I don't recall the title of the button. I pushed the button, the box and its contents are empty/ gone, There is a page with a few brief sentences. The last sentence eludes me- and I am on other projects at the moment. But there is nothing further that you can do on that page. If you click the last sentence - it takes you to a page that says there is nothing further to combine.

Something like that

5norabelle414
Editado: mayo 24, 2021, 10:50 am

>4 EGBERTINA: Ah yes. The last link on that page is called "combination opportunity". That is a page that used to suggest books that might need to be combined but I don't think it works anymore.

The first two links, "original works" and "separated work" are the ones you can use to get back to what you were working on before.

6SandraArdnas
mayo 24, 2021, 1:20 am

Separating is much easier through the workbench as you can separate more than one edition at once

7r.orrison
Editado: mayo 24, 2021, 2:31 am

>4 EGBERTINA: After I filled the box above with several incorrect volumes, there was a button below. I don't recall the title of the button. I pushed the button, the box and its contents are empty/ gone,

Just above that box, the text says "To separate a book from a work, click its "separate" link. Inside the box is a link that says "Separate These Editions »"; that will separate the editions that you've selected from their original works and combine them together into a new work.

When you follow the steps you've described, the incorrect volumes are separated from their original works and combined together. You end up with all the different incorrect editions combined together into a big new mess of a work.

If you're looking at a list of many Best in Children's Books works, and there are some volume 5 editions scattered throughout them where they shouldn't be, you can click "separate" next to each volume 5 to get a bunch of volume 5 editions in the box at the top. Then click the Combine Works button and those volume 5 editions are separated from their original works and put together into a new work.

On the next page you are shown the list of original works that the incorrect editions were separated out of, and a link to the new work that was created from the separated editions (it's labelled "Separated work"). You should click that link, and then combine that new work with the main work where it belongs.