Dates and periodicals

Now that LT allows me to see the original date of publication of my books, I'm going through and filling that in. (Big blank spots in my data bug me). I have certain individual issues of periodicals, which are all grouped under one "work". In this case, I've been putting the date of first publication of the periodical as the original date of publication; is that the right move?

Secondarily, how long does LT take to recalculate that info? I've dated a ton of stuff over the last few days and they still show up under "no date".

Different individual issues of periodicals should not be in the same work. They should be separated.

>1 jonsweitzerlamme: Unless you added them as single entries (aka an entry saying "Magazine X, Issues 1-20", these need splitting - they need to be separate works. LT auto-combined them because of their titles - it is a common issue with magazines - they require manual separation after that. :)

Then you can add the correct date to each record.

>2 MarthaJeanne: I think it refers to collective entry for several issues, e.g. a single entry for all National Geographic issues held.

Omnibuses, anthologies and such have the original publication date of that specific edition, which can sometimes be significantly later than the last individual book/story contained, but I'm not sure how this should translate to a bunch pf periodicals in a single entry. Perhaps there can't be one, at least not in cases where various members catalogued periodical under title only, but data about issues held is in comments

>4 SandraArdnas: "I think it refers to collective entry for several issues"

If the OP wants their copies to be added to a series or publisher's series record they ought to be separated as >2 MarthaJeanne: said. Individual issues can be made into tidy series like Slightly Foxed; groups of unseparated issues have to be lumped together ignaminiously like at the foot of The Colophon.

Also it's difficult to add any meaningful CK to a collective entry.

>1 jonsweitzerlamme: Sorry, what do you mean, "Now that LT allows me to see the original date of publication of my books"? It's always been available. Am I missing something?

>5 Cynfelyn: You're right, but original date of publication is now also available via "Charts / Graphs".

>5 Cynfelyn: I guess I should've said "Now the LT puts the original publication date on my Charts and Graphs page". Anything graphed and/or charted that has lots of blank/unknown info bugs me (hence me weighing and measuring probably 300 books last year). My question is basically "now that I've added about 150 dates of original publication to works which previously didn't have them, when will my charts and graphs page reflect that?"

So, I'm going to want to go through and make each issue its own work, grouped as a publisher series, with its original publication date as the date of the issue itself?

>7 jonsweitzerlamme: Normal Series - magazines and Journals get grouped as normal series :)

If you have entered each issue separately they should not be in the same work. If you have a general entry for the periodical with issues noted in comments, that is a different matter.