Open Library

Add a book - author field no author suggestions

Bug #546401 reported by Winnie
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
Confirmed
Undecided
Anand Chitipothu

Bug Description

http://upstream.openlibrary.org/books/add
Fill out fields, I used the information from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Rebecca%20Skloot
After entering author name in field, system takes a long time searching for author name and doesn't return any suggestions
Fill out rest of fields/information
Click on "Add"
I get a message asking me to "Please select an author from the drop down"

I should be able to:
1) get author suggestions if there are any
2) be able to add a book

Winnie (winnie-archive)
Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
Changed in openlibrary:
status: New → Invalid
Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
Changed in openlibrary:
status: Invalid → New
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Winnie (winnie-archive) wrote :

Tried on Mac/Safari and was able to add. Still a problem in Firefox.

Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: Edward Betts (edwardbetts) → Lance Arthur (lance-arthur)
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Winnie (winnie-archive) wrote :

Lance I reassigned to you. Will check on PC later this evening.

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Lance Arthur (lance-arthur) wrote :

It appears that what happens (and this is happening in Firefox but not Safari) is that the "accept" class, which is necessary for Submit to process and is added to the Author field if an author name is clicked on from the drop-down, is being excised from the field if (and only if) the end-user elects to tab to the Publisher field out of the Author field rather than clicking on it with the mouse.

Anand made a note of this in the autocomplete.js file, that "adding class directly is not working when tab is pressed. setTimeout seems to be working!" but it doesn't seem to work in Firefox. I'm assigning it to Anand for a look-see.

Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: Lance Arthur (lance-arthur) → Anand Chitipothu (anandology)
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Lance Arthur (lance-arthur) wrote :

I attempted to reproduce the problem on Windows. IE7 and IE8 work fine, Firefox still wants to remove the "accept" class when the field is tabbed out of. Chrome also works, so it seems it is only a Firefox bug.

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Edward Betts (edwardbetts) wrote :

Can we change the status to confirmed?

George (george-archive)
Changed in openlibrary:
status: New → Confirmed
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