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Old 05-15-2011, 06:53 AM   #128
kiwidude
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Originally Posted by xXTGMKXx View Post
Well I found a quick-fix... user-added column with a yes/no configuration.
I still think it's a good idea... but thought I'd throw my solution out there for those with the same problem.
Can you not just use a search of:
isbn:false

When I added the ability to temp mark the ids that were updated, I did consider an option in the dropdown to show those that failed and in fact had it coded but ripped it out before release. I didn't include it for two reasons:

The first is that there is overlap with isbn:false. Of course isbn:false is all of your database, and not related to your selection you did the extract on.

The second is the definition of "failure". Does failure mean that it could not find an ISBN by scanning? What if the book already had an ISBN?

Or does it meant that the book was not updated with an ISBN (it might have found one but if matched an existing value on the book so did nothing).

It gets a bit murky. If we can agree a definition that would be "useful" then I can put it in a future release in that dropdown of the configuration screen for the plugin. My guess would be that you are only going to be interested in books that still do not have an ISBN from the set that you scanned?
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