Re: [Bookbase-help] Looking at bookbase.

[Greg K. <gre...@ba...>]

> First, it requires the ISBN number and refuses to accept a book without it.

This is something that will be corrected in the next version.

> There seems to be no way to select/modify an entry.
> If I "search" for a title, then click on a result, the book entry fields
> are not filled in. I am therefore forced to enter  them in again by hand,
> it attempts to add yet another entry.  This may be an error on my part,
> but how to I recall an entry to modify it?

This definitely does not sound right.  To modify an entry you should run a
search, right click on the entry you wish to modify, and select 'MODIFY'

> How do I maintain just one entry for each author, and list multiple
> books by this author?

It doesn't work that way.  Yet.  In the current version, the author's name is
stored as a text field in the book record.  This will be changed in upcoming
versions.

>  There does seem to be an extra field following
> the author name, is this for an author ID that allows my to refer back
> to an author in the db?

That second field was meant for a second author, but don't use it -- it's
broken.

> In absence of any satisfactory answers to these questions, is there any
> other book db system out there that would allow me to maintain a database
> of books without these restrictions?

Not as far as I know.  That's why I wrote this one.

> As is, I can't even use bookbase for initial entry because it seems to
> keep creating duplicate entries int he author and publisher fields.

I suspect there is something fishy going on between BookBase and whatever flavor
of unix you use.  If I were you, I wouldn't use the program until the next
version comes out.

Greg