Open Library

Need to handle 0 search results

Bug #512920 reported by George
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
Fix Released
High
Anand Chitipothu
Open Library general-bucket

Bug Description

We should do a specific design if people can't find the book they're looking for that encourages them to add a new record.

I'd suggest we pop the Add Book form right there on the page.

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George (george-archive) wrote :

Lance - can you mark up for Anand, then pass this bug along?

Edward can probably give you a conditional (or something) to work out when to display 0 results.

Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → Lance Arthur (lance-arthur)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
milestone: none → upstream-to-www
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George (george-archive) wrote :

If someone adds a book from this screen, it should just fold into the Add Book process after they click ADD.

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Lance Arthur (lance-arthur) wrote :

The search results will now present the Add Book form of zero results are returned for any search. Additionally, the facets will not show on a result of 1 book.

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George (george-archive) wrote :

Anand - pls make sure you consider this additional placement of the Add Book as you code http://upstream.openlibrary.org/books/add

Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: Lance Arthur (lance-arthur) → Anand Chitipothu (anandology)
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George (george-archive) wrote :

If there's any way you can truncate at the end of a word instead of after a fixed number of characters, that would be a really nice polish.

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George (george-archive) wrote :

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becomes

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Lance Arthur (lance-arthur)
Changed in openlibrary:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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George (george-archive) wrote :

This is good enough.

Changed in openlibrary:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
George (george-archive)
Changed in openlibrary:
milestone: upstream-to-www → general-bucket
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