cannot change "principal" to "reference" editions in editor

[paregorios]

see related issue #313

[paregorios]

Here, incidentally, is the distinction that @rogerbagnall drew between "principal edition" and "reference edition" when confusion erupted previously. It doesn't provide an answer for my question above, but it is relevant.

[rla2118]

I don't know if this is related to the problem that users have experienced of not being able to save reference editions. The default seems to be "principal edition." I'm drawing @Edelweiss into the conversation.

[paregorios]

@rla2118 is the "unable to save reference editions" problem ticketed somewhere?

[rla2118]

No, because I wondered if this ticket is related.

[paregorios]

@rla2118 if you have (or can get) a good step-by-step description of what's happening to users when they try to do that, can you paste it in here?

[rla2118]

Here is what Thomas Backhuys reports in submission notes for http://litpap.info/editor/publications/378# = TM 59221.

"Text according to edition P.Köln II 58 (cannot save this biblio reference as "reference edition": editor changes name to "principal edition")"

When he tries to change the biblio reference from "reference edition" to "principal edition" the system defaults to "principal edition". The XML looks like this

     <div type="bibliography" subtype="principalEdition">
        <listBibl>
           <bibl n="1" type="reference" subtype="principal">
        <!-- ignore - start, i.e. SoSOL users may not edit this -->
              <title level="s" type="short-Checklist" n="1">P.Köln 2</title>
              <author n="1">
                 <forename>Bärbel</forename>
                 <surname>Kramer</surname>
              </author>
              <pubPlace n="1">Opladen</pubPlace>
              <date>1978</date>
              <!-- ignore - stop -->
              <ptr target="http://papyri.info/biblio/9119"/>
              <biblScope n="1" unit="numbers">58</biblScope>
              <biblScope n="2" unit="volume">2</biblScope>
           </bibl>
           <bibl n="2" type="publication" subtype="principal">
        <!-- ignore - start, i.e. SoSOL users may not edit this -->
              <title level="j" type="short-BP">ZPE</title>
              <author n="1">
                 <surname>Merkelbach</surname>
                 <forename>Reinhold</forename>
              </author>
              <date>1974</date>
              <!-- ignore - stop -->
              <ptr target="http://papyri.info/biblio/50165"/>
              <biblScope n="1" unit="volume">14</biblScope>
              <biblScope n="2" unit="pp">97-113</biblScope>
           </bibl>
        </listBibl>

[paregorios]

From what @rla2118 reports above, this sounds indeed like something that stems from an editor behavior. I'm tagging it accordingly and leaving it assigned to @Edelweiss.

[Edelweiss]

google sheet for duplicate biblio refs

[paregorios]

@jcowey do you know what needs to be done here?

[paregorios]

Multiple users at the NYC event have experienced the same problem with the editor that @rla2118 describes above, namely: attempting to change the type of a citation from "principal" to "reference" (or similar), saving the metadata, and then discovering that the change has not been made.

[Edelweiss]

DCLP/sosol@6e663d5

[jcowey]

Tested and works for me