One thing I am not entirely clear on with regard to this module: what can you do with the information retrieved from OpenLibrary (i.e. the book titles, authors, etc.)? Is it actually put into fields of some sort as part of the node, so that you can use it as a sorting criterion for Views (to list books alphabetically by author, for example), search for a particular book, etc.? Or is it only presented visually, without being stored as part of the node, so that users can see the information on a particular book if they go to its page, but there's no way of sorting or indexing them?

I'm trying to create an online interface for a small lending library, and this module seems like it might be a useful way of saving people from having to enter all the bibliographic information for each book manually, but that won't help if there's no way of accessing the information in order to organize the books...

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griz’s picture

check out Computed Field. Not sure if you can call this modules functons from your computed field, but its worth a try. If you find that your fields aren't being filled unless you save your nodes twice, use Rules to re-save them after saving. Good luck.