[ajslater]

Summary

• Editing in the tag editor. End Year, Status and Series Summary inputs sit under the series row. They save straight to the Codex database, and a hint under them says so: they are not written to the comic files.
• Why the database. No format codex writes can hold these three fields: MetronInfo has only StartYear and ComicInfo has none of them. Only comicbox.json/yaml carries them, and that won't be embedded in comics. Start Year keeps writing to MetronInfo as before. Re-imports leave the database values standing, because the importer ignores a series attribute a file doesn't carry. A new importer test pins that down.
• New endpoint. POST /api/v4/admin/series-attrs is admin-only and takes collection + pks like tag-write.
  • It updates only the attributes sent; null or "" clears one. It bumps updated_at.
  • It refuses a selection spanning more than one series, an unknown status, or an end year outside 1000–9999.
• Locking. The inputs lock, with the reason shown, unless exactly one series is being edited and its name is unchanged. A rename would leave the values on the row the comics are moving off.
• Save flow. A save with only these fields skips the preflight and the tag write. On the browser route the page reloads, so the title's series years refresh at once.
• Status choices derive from SeriesStatusChoices into series-statuses.json.
• NEWS gets the editor line, plus the line PR 983 lacked for the online tag match picker.

Follow-ups (not here)

• Online tagging could store Metron's end year, status and summary in the database the same way; today they are lost on the file round trip.
• Clearing Start Year still never reaches the database, because the importer ignores missing values. This predates the change.
• These fields could also go to MetronInfo once the schema PR on AJ's fork lands upstream and comicbox maps the elements.

Test results

• make fix, make lint, make ty: clean.
• vitest: 1033 passed (99 files). New edit-panel-series-attrs.test.js: seeding, no format gate, lock reasons, warning, changed-only and clear payloads, a database-only save skipping preflight and tag write, both requests, browser reload.
• pytest: 1706 passed, 1 xfailed. New tests/test_admin_series_attrs.py (set, series collection, partial, clear, two series, nothing sent, bad status, bad year, non-admin), a re-import test, and status-choice derivation tests.
• Browser, on an isolated stack at 1024px and 375px:
  • Set End Year 1998 → only /admin/series-attrs was posted, the row updated, the CBZ was untouched, and the title read 1963–1998 at once.
  • Reopened → the edit persisted.
  • Cleared → the title read 1963–.

Screenshots

Local files, to drag in here:

• /Users/aj/Code/codex/.claude/worktrees/series-display-1358af/tasks/screenshots/6-editor-series-attrs.jpg: the editor with the new inputs and warning
• /Users/aj/Code/codex/.claude/worktrees/series-display-1358af/tasks/screenshots/7-editor-series-attrs-mobile.jpg: the same at 375px

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