Odd inconsistency between credit and url for credit

General
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See

https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/104735/kapitan-korsakov/

https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/104735/malcolm-barter/

These are the same profile. I searched for Malcolm Barter and the url returned was the second of those two. When used in an Edition, the url shows as the first.

The same happened to.

https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/104734/nothing-groningen-2017/

https://ctlgs.org/c/books/credit/104734/iain-mccaig/

I was was submitting (https://ctlgs.org/c/books/edition/822421/the-forest-of-doom/) solely with a raw edit and after it was done, one Malcolm Barter credit showed the correct url (without a *) and one didn’t (with a *). The Iain McCaig credit showed with the wrong url and with a *.

I then tried to edit the Edition and re-select the wrong-url credits using the UI to see if it fixed them, and it seems to have done so for the Malcolm Barter credit, but not the Iain McCaig one.

I remember in the days of bookogs we used to re-use a profile if one had become redundant for whatever reason. Perhaps this is the cause of this odd quirk? Can anything be done about it? It doesn’t seem to affect the usability of the site so far, but it’s just a bit weird and confusing.

ps, can we turn off the forum’s insistence of auto-converting text enclosed in *s to italics? It’s really annoying.

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Latest: it seems to be effectively random as to which gets used on any given page load. A refresh of the Edition page seems to randomly switch between correct and incorrect urls for the credits.

It’s probably just the first result in whatever order the query is returning them.

3

Ok, sorry about that! I recently imported some of the posters data into gigposters and the query on the edition page was not restricted to the current catalog. So it was fetching a credit from gigposters with the same id.

I think this is all cleaned up now but I’ll keep looking around. Let me know if you spot anything weird.

4

Sorry, I checked and that is not possible.

5

Cheery thanks for this. :slight_smile:

Glum thanks for this :frowning:

On a note related to gigposters… what’s that for? I don’t remember that old ogs. I mean, what’s the scope of it - is it only for posters bought at gigs? Seems such a narrow scope that it can’t be that. There is no documentation yet that explains what the eligibility criteria are for any given catalogue.

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Can’t be turned off as it’s part of markdown editing, but any special markdown characters can be escaped with back-slashes:

So if you type it as \*hello\*, you’ll get *hello*