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#99 Attempt to clone Magazine gives wrong error
If you try to Clone a Magazine Publication, you will receive the following error: "Error: This publication is not in a cloneable state.
Unable to determine the title parent of this publication. The most likely cause is that the publication type is wrong. For instance, if this book is a COLLECTION, look to see that its type is set to COLLECTION. If the type is wrong, edit the publication and reset the type. Then the record will be cloneable."
This happens because the Cloning page expects the Publication record to have at least one Title that matches the Pub type, e.g. Novel would match Novel, Collection would match Collection, etc. This logic doesn't work for Magazines where Pub type Magazine matches Title type Editor. We need to change the wording of the error to reflect the fact that Magazines are not clonable at the moment.
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Anonymous
Fixed in edit/clonepub.py 1.6.
Implemented in r2009-18.