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Originally Posted by chaley
Possible, yes. Difficult, yes. In fact, difficult enough where I am not going to attempt it. You can get equivalent functionality by creating a composite column that mirrors the bool column, marking it as shown in tag browser, then hiding the column so it takes no space in the library view.
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Thanks for the tip. Nevertheless, this has an undesirable side effect. Now your shown column is the "templated" one. So you can't change the "Yes/No/No value" directly from the main table view. When you click on the "templated" Yes/No icon you open the Template editor.
Nevertheless a minor possible tweak in . As you say, probably it's not worth the coding effort at all.
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Originally Posted by chaley
As a) this too is difficult with lots of internal ramifications, b) I have no personal use for it, and c) as it can be done with templates at the cost of having a second column, I will leave it to some other developer.
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As you say I supposed it is really difficult.
Nevertheless, I feel it would be a really useful feature at least for Translator(s)-like fields (or "Editor(s), or "Cover Artist(s)", or "The friend(s) who bought me the book", or whatever).
Unless you can give a really, REALLY good hint, I feel the template coding can be really painful because you have to:
- Replicate the sorting by family name behaviour. I feel it can be more or less easily replicable using two added columns (one for the name, and the second one for the sorted name).
- Replicate the & behaviour. Author(s) is not exactly just a "Text" field, because it knows that "J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien" are in fact two people, I mean, two "Text fields" merged together. (And also that "A & B & C" are not two but three people...)
As you can imagine I'm no expert, but replicating this behaviour feels like a HUGE PITA, because you can't use a fixed number of additional columns.
I do agree that the title-like behaviour doesn't worth the effort just to achieve an automatic conversion/sorting from "A good book" to "good book, A".
Nevertheless, you are the coders of a freeware/donationware software, so obviously, you freely decide when, how or where you spend your coding efforts.
