internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary
Switch to machine readable dimensions from text format
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Affects: Data
Lead: @cdrini
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Priority: 4
Theme: Editing
Type: Feature Request
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Description
Currently the UI presents an edit dialog with 3 different dimension fields, but they're all concatenated together into a single string before storage. We should switch to three separate fields using common units (cm) and convert to localized units & number format on the front end.
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