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Less redundancy: No UUID if an ISBN (or other identifiers) exists #2392

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Let's suppose an author enters an ISBN as metadata.

Sigil does not use it as "unique-identifier" but creates automatically an UUID.

I suggest, that the ISBN should be used as "unique-identifier" and no extra 
UUID should be added.

If an author adds an ISBN after an UUID has been created, the UUID should be 
deleted as soon as an ISBN has been entered.

The same for other types of unique identifiers.

Example:

<dc:identifier id="BookID" opf:scheme="ISBN">978-3-12345-678-9</dc:identifier>

Original issue reported on code.google.com by boru...@gmx.de on 5 Sep 2013 at 7:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Everyone has their preferred approach for what the values should be - so it 
will remain as a randomly generated number - but you can easily edit it.

Original comment by daveheil...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2013 at 4:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I know that you can edit the number.

The point in my suggestion is:
User whose "preferred approach" is "ISBN as unique identifier" cannot configure 
Sigil in a way, that this ID is used.

They have to edit the source code manually.

Original comment by boru...@gmx.de on 12 Sep 2013 at 10:26