Add a toggle to the ISBN field to turn dashes on or off. LOC, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and a lot of other sites no longer use the "-" and often the ISBNs are not formatted the same way as they are in Tellico if they are used.
(In reply to Jim Sanderson from comment #0) > Add a toggle to the ISBN field to turn dashes on or off. > > LOC, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and a lot of other sites no longer use the "-" > and often the ISBNs are not formatted the same way as they are in Tellico if > they are used. Is your request purely for formatting the value for the user or is it causing issues with ISBN searches? Trying to figure out if this is an aesthetic distinction or functional. Thanks
Git commit be29f49e3f72cdc8e6db2b987d86235522f7410c by Robby Stephenson. Committed on 10/08/2026 at 02:09. Pushed by rstephenson into branch 'master'. Allow disabling of the ISBN validation in the entry edit dialog The ISBN field needs a property of format = false. FIXED-IN: 4.2.2 M +4 -0 ChangeLog M +1 -1 doc/details.docbook M +4 -3 src/gui/linefieldwidget.cpp https://invent.kde.org/office/tellico/-/commit/be29f49e3f72cdc8e6db2b987d86235522f7410c
Git commit 818b4c812152b71c08fdf01b575b8cc83df062a4 by Robby Stephenson. Committed on 10/08/2026 at 02:11. Pushed by rstephenson into branch '4.2'. Allow disabling of the ISBN validation in the entry edit dialog The ISBN field needs a property of format = false. FIXED-IN: 4.2.2 M +4 -0 ChangeLog M +4 -3 src/gui/linefieldwidget.cpp https://invent.kde.org/office/tellico/-/commit/818b4c812152b71c08fdf01b575b8cc83df062a4
Created attachment 195042 [details] attachment-2317927-0.html Partly functional. Copying an ISBN from Tellico to paste into a search engine on certain sites (B&N, LOC, etc.) requires editing out the dashes for it to work properly. Also, for some publishers, the breaks are different. This isn't a crucial change, just a "wish for" item. On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM Robby Stephenson <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514622 > > Robby Stephenson <robby@periapsis.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Latest Commit|https://invent.kde.org/offi | > https://invent.kde.org/offi > |ce/tellico/-/commit/be29f49 > |ce/tellico/-/commit/818b4c8 > |e3f72cdc8e6db2b987d86235522 > |12152b71c08fdf01b575b8cc83d > |f7410c |f062a4 > > --- Comment #3 from Robby Stephenson <robby@periapsis.org> --- > Git commit 818b4c812152b71c08fdf01b575b8cc83df062a4 by Robby Stephenson. > Committed on 10/08/2026 at 02:11. > Pushed by rstephenson into branch '4.2'. > > Allow disabling of the ISBN validation in the entry edit dialog > > The ISBN field needs a property of format = false. > FIXED-IN: 4.2.2 > > M +4 -0 ChangeLog > M +4 -3 src/gui/linefieldwidget.cpp > > > https://invent.kde.org/office/tellico/-/commit/818b4c812152b71c08fdf01b575b8cc83df062a4 > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug.
Git commit c3a3e3e58dd8c3c96bd846f42872127188df11df by Robby Stephenson. Committed on 07/09/2026 at 17:01. Pushed by rstephenson into branch '4.3'. Add context menu item to copy ISBN without hyphens M +41 -1 src/gui/lineedit.cpp M +8 -0 src/gui/lineedit.h M +2 -0 src/gui/linefieldwidget.cpp https://invent.kde.org/office/tellico/-/commit/c3a3e3e58dd8c3c96bd846f42872127188df11df
(In reply to Jim Sanderson from comment #4) > Partly functional. Copying an ISBN from Tellico to paste into a search > engine on certain sites (B&N, LOC, etc.) requires editing out the dashes > for it to work properly. I confess I don't quite understand your work flow. If you're searching for an ISBN on LOC, Tellico can do that itself. If a website is so broken that it can't search for ISBN values that include hyphens, that's pretty bad. In any case, I've added a context menu item to copy without hyphens. >Also, for some publishers, the breaks are different. The hyphen formatting is defined by the ISBN organization, which is what Tellico attempts to follow.
Git commit b7f1fa7ba485a27ca2fafc3a5c955e0815b73a79 by Robby Stephenson. Committed on 07/09/2026 at 17:02. Pushed by rstephenson into branch 'master'. Add context menu item to copy ISBN without hyphens M +41 -1 src/gui/lineedit.cpp M +8 -0 src/gui/lineedit.h M +2 -0 src/gui/linefieldwidget.cpp https://invent.kde.org/office/tellico/-/commit/b7f1fa7ba485a27ca2fafc3a5c955e0815b73a79
Robby, The searching has nothing to do with Tellico. That works fine. It's copying the ISBN to search other sites for identifying numbers to link to in ISFDB and other bibliographic sites so that I can document books for others to identify first edition points, etc. After contributing a few thousand entries it just occurred to me that I'm editing out the dashes on a lot of ISBNs. Maybe it's just me and no one else would ever care about it. Amazon works off and on with dashes (weirdly inconsistent across their sites (US, UK, CA)...it works one day and not the next but they are listing all of their ISBNs without dashes now. The LOC doesn't work with dashes (they converted all of their listings a few years ago to not include dashes). Barnes & Noble doesn't work with dashes (all of their listing are without dashes now). Again, Tellico isn't the issue, it's the world that's moving away from the formatting. Thank you for the change and all your work. It is appreciated. Jim On 9/7/26 10:05 AM, Robby Stephenson wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514622 > > --- Comment #6 from Robby Stephenson <robby@periapsis.org> --- > (In reply to Jim Sanderson from comment #4) >> Partly functional. Copying an ISBN from Tellico to paste into a search >> engine on certain sites (B&N, LOC, etc.) requires editing out the dashes >> for it to work properly. > I confess I don't quite understand your work flow. If you're searching for an > ISBN on LOC, Tellico can do that itself. If a website is so broken that it > can't search for ISBN values that include hyphens, that's pretty bad. In any > case, I've added a context menu item to copy without hyphens. > >> Also, for some publishers, the breaks are different. > The hyphen formatting is defined by the ISBN organization, which is what > Tellico attempts to follow. >