I'd love for the PubMed import, when encountering a duplicate, to issue a warning message that links to each duplicate node, or at least lists the pubmed ids of the duplicate. That way I could manually update those nodes appropriately.

As far as I can tell, this feature is also not present in the advanced biblio module, which has some extra handling for duplicates, but doesn't just simply say which nodes were duplicated.

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rjerome commented

I know, this is an ongoing issue, which I've been slowly trying to address. If it's any consolation, the 7.x versions write some informational watchdog messages into the logs regarding duplicates. If every new version of Drupal didn't require a (almost) complete rewrite of the module, I might actually have some time to address these things that keep lingering around...

Ron.

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mroswell commented

Serious kudos to you for this terrific module, and your always growing Drupal knowledge!

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mroswell commented

I just noticed that the individual PMID import yields this message upon duplication. "The PubMed ID that you are trying to import already exists in the database, see node/135" (yay!)

So, would love to have the same links for the file import.

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rjerome commented

I've just added this information to the file import as well. Note also that in addition to listing the duplicates on screen, they are also save as watchdog entries in the database which can be viewed here "/admin/reports/dblog"

http://drupalcode.org/project/biblio.git/commit/2145993

Ron.

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mroswell commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Thanks so much for adding the duplicate links to file import (and the watchdog entries). Really appreciate it.

(Also: Marking as closed.)