List of Works

Your Stison Title Management module can group items together so that you can generate life-time sales reports that draw in all products related to particular content. This is based on the idea that the original manuscript is the main content from which all other editions will be made. We refer to this grouping as a: Work. 

If you have books that have originated from the same content but that have different descriptions, cover images, etc, then you will not have been able to merge them within the main Book List. Works provides an alternative for this, enabling you to bring all related editions to a single area on the system for life-time reporting.

In our example below, Title 01 and Title 05 have resulted from the same original manuscript.  As you can see in the screenshots, each title has its own resultant formats, and these are grouped together under the same Works Title. In this case, we've called it: Sample Work.

At the moment, this grouping/categorisation is for internal use only and does not get sent out in your ONIX feeds.   

Further down the screen below the bibliographic data and the costs, you will see charts and graphs. These display cumulative annual sales figures. This is very useful at-a-glance reporting to get a sense of the life of the content in all its various forms and editions.

To Create a New Work:

•  Navigate to List of Works in the main menu.

• Click Create New. Add the Work name, an identifier and then click Create. 

• The new Work will then appear in the main List of Works screen.

• Once the Work is saved, you are now ready to start adding specific titles to it. You can do this in one of two ways:

1. From within the Work itself, you can create a new title by clicking on the blue button we've circled in the screenshot below: create new. This will take you to the first tab within a new title record. The name of the relevant Work will automatically appear in the field. 
2. Add a new title via the Title Management. Once you've created the work, edit the titles you wish to add, you can link to the Work by clicking on the magnifier beside the field on the "title tab". A list of all Works currently saved in the system will come up. Select the appropriate item. In the example below, Title 08 is now part of Sample Work 2.

You have now successfully created a Work and added some titles to it.