Author:  StormChaser  Posted:  Jan 17, 2016 03:09  Subject:  Please Allow Alternate Item Numbers for Books  Viewed:  112 times  Topic:  Suggestions  Status: Implemented Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card StormChaser (569) Location:  USA, Oklahoma Member Since Contact Type Status Sep 10, 2002 Seller  Store: Penultimate Harbinger

I looked through the open catalog requests and there doesn't seem to be one for this. It could be a site development issue, but I'm not sure so I'm making it a catalog request. Currently BrickLink uses an unholy mix of the following numbers for books: BL numbers:   *  BioCMN BIONICLE - Challenge of Mata Nui Books: Story Book: BIONICLE 13-digit ISBNs:   *  9780439501200 Bionicle Collector's Sticker Book Books: Sticker Book: BIONICLE 10-digit ISBNs:   *  3499609053 Die LEGO Story - Der Stein der Weisen by Margret Uhle Books: Informational Book TLG website numbers:   *  5002889 (Inv) DC Universe Super Heroes Batman Visual Dictionary Books: Informational Book: Super Heroes: Batman II LEGO Education website/catalog numbers:   *  2009723 Cities and Transportation Activity Pack Books: Curriculum Activity Book: Educational & Dacta: MINDSTORMS Item numbers printed on the item:   *  4218234 BIONICLE - Rahkshi Informational Card Books: Informational Book: BIONICLE: Rahkshi TLG identifying item numbers:   *  226 Idea Book 226 Books: Idea Book and Thor knows what else I've missed. This makes the Books section of the BrickLink catalog confusing and difficult to navigate or work on (as evidenced by someone recently submitting several books which already had catalog entries). I've been told that alternate item numbers aren't allowed for books. Fine, let's change that. Some books have alternate item numbers and should be searchable and findable by any of those numbers. There are 3,000 books in the catalog and volunteers willing to do a little work to make those entries more complete. It won't be so easy if we wait to add the alternate item number field until we have two or three times that many books (or more) in the catalog. Thank you for considering this request.

Message Has 3 Replies:

Re: Please Allow Alternate Item Numbers for Books - therobo (9696)

[...] It is a development issue, so I have moved this request to suggestions and voted Yes. (101 months ago, Jan 17, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Please Allow Alternate Item Numbers for Books - WoutR (920)

[...] Did you also send a request here? (URL) (101 months ago, Jan 17, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Please Allow Alternate Item Numbers for Books - Admin_Russell

[...] [...] This suggestion has now been implemented. :) (67 months ago, Nov 27, 2018, to Suggestions)

8 Messages in this Thread:

 Msg 1 « - StormChaser (569) 101 months ago Jan 17, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - therobo (9696) 101 months ago Jan 17, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 - StormChaser (569) 101 months ago Jan 17, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 4 - WoutR (920) 101 months ago Jan 17, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 5 - therobo (9696) 101 months ago Jan 17, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 6 - Admin_Russell 67 months ago Nov 27, 2018 to Suggestions
 Msg 7 - Lauren_Luke (1609) 67 months ago Nov 27, 2018 to Suggestions
 Msg 8 - StormChaser (569) 67 months ago Nov 27, 2018 to Suggestions