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I have seen titles with brackets so you can use them. I think there a bug with series, there probably is or was a 'Turku' series so now it will not show up in titles with (Turku).
Tom wrote: "I have seen titles with brackets so you can use them. I think there a bug with series, there probably is or was a 'Turku' series so now it will not show up in titles with (Turku)."
Nope, I don't think that the problem is that there would have been a series called Turku at some point since it does the same for the other book in the series called "Olet tässä (Helsinki)". Besides if I now go and add the series to these books it would cover this part of the titles...
Rivka: Why didn't I think of that? Using [] makes so much sense. Thank you! :)
Nope, I don't think that the problem is that there would have been a series called Turku at some point since it does the same for the other book in the series called "Olet tässä (Helsinki)". Besides if I now go and add the series to these books it would cover this part of the titles...
Rivka: Why didn't I think of that? Using [] makes so much sense. Thank you! :)
The system is right now treating the last set of parenthesis in the title as a series, whether it is or not, and hides it from some title lists. For example, if the title were "Olet (tässä) (Turku)", you'd see "Olet (tässä)" showing up, or if it were "Olet (tässä (Turku))" you'd see "Olet (tässä". As rivka says, though, that's only for parentheses, not other sorts of brackets, so there are ways around it.
The behavior in how the system treats parentheses/brackets seems to be inconsistent.
I added this book and run into a problem with the title that should be "Olet tässä (Turku)". I know that usually brackets are used to indicate what part of the title is actually a series info, but in this book the official typing of the Title uses the brackets. It can even be checked from the Finnish national library catalogue.
Is there any way round this so that the site wouldn't think the brackets are indicating a series? At the moment the part in brackets is not shown at all in search results, even tough the book isn't even connected to any series. (But it will in the future when I get round adding the other books in the series.)
If there is no trick to "cheat the system" I'll just remove the brackets, but I wanted to first ask if someone knows how to keep the write typing of the title in the database.