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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Checking duplicates by identifier requires a separate search for each id type. Would it make sense to have "any" as an option in the dropdown?
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From a user perspective I can understand the request. From an implementation perspective I'm not exactly super excited about doing so as it would be a non-trivial change
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There are also two other complications to consider. The first is the same problem that a binary book duplicate search has - the user would not know "which" identifier is the duplicate in each pair.
Secondly it is entirely feasible for users to have hundreds or even thousands of different identifier types with all sorts of urn numbers etc (see the discussion recently in this thread about the dropdown of identifiers exploding in size), which might make such this search extremely slow.