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joegearhart · 12-19-2010, 08:02 PM

I'm setting up Calibre to work with the Kindle that I'm giving my wife on Christmas.

I wanted to create a custom date field called "Date Read", and did so with no problems.

Well, then I wanted to set up some custom searches related to that. To do so, I had to put in some dummy dates on a few books so that I could make sure the searches operated as expected.

#dateread:<2010
#dateread:<2010-05
#dateread:false
#dateread:true

These all worked PERFECTLY!

But now that I want to clear the date fields, I can't find a way to do so! I can only edit the "date read" field. I can't clear it out again.

I have tried deleting the value, right clicking and selecting "cut", I've gone to "Edit Metadata" > "Edit Metadata Individually" > "Custom Metadata" and tried to delete it there but just can't do it.

Is this a bug or am I missing something very simple?

12-19-2010, 08:02 PM	#1
joegearhart Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle 3 WiFi	Can't clear "custom" date field? I'm setting up Calibre to work with the Kindle that I'm giving my wife on Christmas. I wanted to create a custom date field called "Date Read", and did so with no problems. Well, then I wanted to set up some custom searches related to that. To do so, I had to put in some dummy dates on a few books so that I could make sure the searches operated as expected. #dateread:<2010 #dateread:<2010-05 #dateread:false #dateread:true These all worked PERFECTLY! But now that I want to clear the date fields, I can't find a way to do so! I can only edit the "date read" field. I can't clear it out again. I have tried deleting the value, right clicking and selecting "cut", I've gone to "Edit Metadata" > "Edit Metadata Individually" > "Custom Metadata" and tried to delete it there but just can't do it. Is this a bug or am I missing something very simple?