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Old 06-23-2023, 07:08 AM   #26
chaley
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Originally Posted by jecilop View Post
I keep a simple method that has worked really well and didn't require an special columns. It allows quick access to books under both names.
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This is a nice, elegant solution.

I suggest two "enhancements".
  1. Use the author link feature to add a "Link to show [the pen name] book" to each author in a set of pen names. This adds a clickable link on the author(s) to make selecting the master "Real name" book trivial.
  2. Add an "Action Chain" that searches for all books in the set of pen names.
Doing the first gets a display like this one.
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Clicking the link gets you this, which should be very similar to what you see.
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Using the Action Chains script on any of the pen name books gets all books written by any of the pen names.
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Here is the action chain export:
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