Bug 20839 - Edit as new (duplicate) doesn't work with advanced editor
Summary: Edit as new (duplicate) doesn't work with advanced editor
Status: CLOSED FIXED
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Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Cataloging (show other bugs)
Version: 17.11
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low normal
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2018-05-30 19:06 UTC by Andrew Fuerste-Henry
Modified: 2020-11-30 21:45 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2018-05-30 19:06:55 UTC
Clicking "Edit as new (duplicate)" on a record in a browser that defaults to the advanced cataloging editor pushes one to the original record and just makes edits there rather than creating a new record.

To test:
1. Confirm your browser is defaulting to the advanced editor when editing records
2. Pull up any bib record
3. Click Edit - Edit as new (duplicate)
4. Make edits to the record
5. Save 
6. Confirm that edits have been made to the new record and no new record has been created

This may be related to bug 16232, but shows different behavior.
Comment 1 Shanna Hollich 2018-08-14 13:15:45 UTC
Adding a comment that I have also encountered this bug and it is frustrating. My workflow is made much easier with use of the Advanced Editor. For advanced catalogers, the Advanced Editor is quicker and easier - I write MARC records the same way I write HTML markup, which is to say I type out all the MARC fields, indicators, and subfields by hand because I use them so frequently that I know them by heart and it is much quicker to type them then to move to the mouse and select fields from a form.

Being able to duplicate records in the Advanced Editor would mean being able to simply delete a line here or there and type in some new MARC fields and be able to save in a matter of seconds. To be restricted to only using the basic editor means clicking through each tab to find the group of MARC fields I want (which makes little sense when editing a MARC record anyway since fields like 490 and 800 need to match and should therefore be visible on the same screen, but I digress...) and then clicking again to manually edit or delete or duplicate that particular tag. I'd rather just be able to type what I need.

Hopefully someone can make a fix for this soon. Thanks!
Comment 2 Heather Hernandez 2020-02-14 17:07:46 UTC
I agree with Shanna completely!  Right now I have to use two different browsers & this is my workaround workflow:

Go to record in Chrome, which is set to basic editor.  Duplicate record in Chrome with basic editor, save record.  Copy URL.

Go to Firefox, which is set to advanced editor, paste in record URL, then go to edit record.

Lots of "click, click, click, click, click..." when I would save SO much time just being able to duplicate the record in the advanced editor.
Comment 3 Katrin Fischer 2020-03-15 16:48:38 UTC
I just tested this on master and it appears to have been fixed. Instead of 'save' I only have duplicate and the changes only appeared on the new record, not the original. 

I am not sure what or when this was fixed, but it looks ok now.