'See also tracing' does not work

[Ditty Mulder]

Reporting in 2.0 beta3

See also tracing does not work:
Example:
There is already a 'Multatuli' authority. The author Multatuli also publishes books under his own name 'Eduard Douwes Dekker".

Step 1: Edit authority record 'Multatuli'
100: Multatuli
500: Douwes Dekker, Eduard
NB You can not retrieve the name in the 5XX field!
[NB See also Bug 687996, editing authority problem]

Step 2: Create new Marc record
Step 3: From the 100 field: Create new authority from this field, choose Create and edit
Step 4: Create authority record:
100: Douwes Dekker, Eduard
500: Multatuli

Problem:
The two authority records are completely separate entities and are not linked in any way.

[Dan Scott (denials)]

We're talking here about authority records linking to and being controlled by other authority records. In my opinion, this is out of scope for the 2.0 release, as it requires a significant amount of additional infrastructure -- too much for 2.0.

I'm going to mark it as a "Wishlist" item.

[Dan Scott (denials)]

Removing the "2.1" milestone as new features are not being accepted for 2.1 (or 2.2 for that matter). Better to leave this untargeted until some development effort materializes on this front.

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Does this bug still apply in 2.4+, authorities have changed somewhat, as have many interfaces...?

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Oh, actually, maybe this is now worked on as part of bib browse in TPAC. Marking duplicate to work in bug 1177810.