#1222 Create an 'Add Translation to This Title' option

[Ahasuerus]

Create an 'Add Translation to This Title' option. The original request was as follows:

We are having a lot of translations being entered now. When the translated title doesn't already exist, it is a two step process to add the new book and then variant the translated title to the original. At the title level, it would be nice to have an "Add Translation to This Title" button which would simply be the "Add New Novel" (or whatever one is the equivalent type as the parent) screen, but it would automatically variant the new container title to the original title.

Ahasuerus's response was:

Suppose we have a title like this one (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2244025) and we want to add a translation. Normally, when you click Add Publication to This Title (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/edit/addpub.cgi?2244025), the following fields are grayed out:

• Title
• Transliterated Title(s)
• Author(s)
• Pub Type

The proposed option, which we will tentatively call "Add Translated Publication to This Title", will look the same with the following exceptions:

• title, transliterated title(s), and author(s) will not be grayed out
• a new drop-down list, "Language", will be added
• a new field, "title note", will be added. It will be used to capture the name of the translator(s) and/or any other translation-specific information.
• a new multi-field, "Web Page", will be added

The new data entry form will create a submission which, once approved, will create a new title record using the entered title/transliterated title(s)/author(s)/language/title note. It will also turn the newly created title into a variant of the original title. The new title will inherent the values of the "title flags" from the parent title.

2025-03-02 addition: Any Contents titles entered in the new data entry form will have the selected language assigned to them.