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Originally Posted by chaley
It is impossible for books in multiple sets
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I know. The reason I didn't consider the possibility that a book could be in multiple sets was because I assumed we'd use the same process used for automerge. It processes the author and/or title to produce a character string. Then identical character strings are grouped. You only get one character string per book, so a book can only be in one set of identical books. When you run a different function against the author/title, you get a different character string and different matching sets, but again, you get only one.
I'll admit, I haven't quite grokked how you will generate multiple sets for a single book. Are you thinking of different runs at different times and storing the results or multiple matching functions run during the matching process ... or what?
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There clearly has to be a plugin involved here. I am assuming that books are viewed on the library view, rather than reinventing another view in the plugin.
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Agreed
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I see no reason why the plugin cannot handle the 'show members of next duplicate set' through a context menu entry or through a keyboard shortcut. It would remember the last one it looked at, get the next one (easy if they are numbers), and do the search for you. You can use the highlight option if you want to see them in a larger context, or turn highlight off to see only that set.
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Yes, although there are two sorts of "next" sets to be shown. The first is the next set for the next group of matched identical books in the next set that has no relation to the previous set. The other is the "next" set for the current book where the current book is a member of more than one identical book set.
The latter type of "next" set only occurs if the matching process permits books to be members of more than one set. I'm still not convinced that we need to allow that at a single point in time. Clearly we need it for different runs (Run 1 match author/title using the automerge function and show duplicate sets, Run 2 do soundex matching of title only, Run 3 do soundex matching of author and exact match title, etc.) but do we need to do all three runs and store the results at the same time?
Would it not be sufficient to do the runs individually for each matching function?