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Old 12-17-2014, 11:45 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
OK, you have a book that fits into two series. Let's call them A & B. Now you have two series columns. The original series columns and the new one called series2. To search using the series column names, you have to have a much more complex search as you have to search 4 times basically. You have to have each column search done twice to find if that column has A or B.
I'm not sure it has to be be that hard? Have a read of Post #9 from chaley.

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Then you have to do the same thing again. Would it not be easier for the user to allow two series in the already existing series column instead of making searching more complicated?
Apparently not, read Post 12 once again from chaley.

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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
Kovid has said many times that changing the original series column to contain some sort of multiple series/range will not happen. FWIW: having worked in that code at length, I agree with his position. Such a change would be a massive undertaking.
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