Multivolume works --page numbers?

[Werner]

When you're manually adding a book to the system, the software requires you to list a number of pages. I'm trying to add a four-volume set, for which the World Catalog record doesn't give any page number figures. I tried putting in "4 v." and tried leaving the box blank --the computer didn't accept either of those options. Of course, I could insert "4" by itself --but there's a great difference between 4 pages and four volumes. :-) How do you folks handle similar situations, if any?

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

Page numbers are not required (at least they didn't used to be)...something else must be causing the problem.

[Werner]

Both times, I got a red-bordered box that specifically informed me that the problem with the page numbers was the one thing that prevented the book data from being saved. That surprised me, too --hitherto, I also had thought that page numbers weren't required, either.

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

I just created a (temporary) book with nothing but title and author and it worked perfectly fine. No page numbers. There must be something else going on.

[Werner]

Thanks, Michael. I'll be mostly away from the Internet this weekend, but I'll try again next week and see what happens. Maybe if I just create the record with author and title, it will work, and I can then edit in more details.

[Werner]

Michael, I tried the method I described in the last sentence above just now (it turns out I won't be going out of town until tomorrow :-)). That worked perfectly, and I noted the fact that the book has four volumes in the description field. So, problem solved! Thanks for steering me in the right direction.

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

Glad it worked. Not sure why it didn't the first time; maybe you happened to catch it when the server was acting up.