calibre companion can't sort by date modified?!

[fanficdude1]

I use CC a LOT. I bought specifically because the moon reader pro app suggested it (also great btw) It's my go-to fanfic library app, but how can it get it to sort on date_modified?!

Calibre itself has a column for this, "modified" lookup name "date_modified"

CC doesn't seem to have this column in ANY of its many sort column screens.

Am I missing something?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by fanficdude1

I use CC a LOT. I bought specifically because the moon reader pro app suggested it (also great btw) It's my go-to fanfic library app, but how can it get it to sort on date_modified?!

Calibre itself has a column for this, "modified" lookup name "date_modified"

Calibre doesn't have a field "date_modified". I am fairly sure you mean "last_modified".

CC doesn't seem to have this column in ANY of its many sort column screens.

Am I missing something?

No, CC does not support sorting on calibre's last_modified. And in fact I don't see much use in it, given that last_modified is changed for any one of a zillion reasons internal to calibre, not just for changes you explicitly make.

That said, the date "Date updated (CC)" is a reasonable stand-in for calibre's last modified date. It is updated whenever new metadata is received from calibre during a wireless device connection, or when a book is downloaded using the cloud or content server connections.

If you really want to have the last_modified date available to sort then you can do it by creating a custom column "built from other columns", use the template

{last_modified:format_date(yyyy-MMM-dd hh:mm:ss)}

then in CC add that custom column to the sort menu. Note that adding the column will update the last_modified date for every book in your library.

Also, given that you are dealing with fanfic, it is worth noting that in calibre, changing a book format file does not change last_modified. It is my understanding that fanfic books change a lot without necessarily changing any metadata for the book, but my understanding may be totally wrong.

[fanficdude1]

changing formats might not update the last_modified date, but presumably adding new chapters will. i use fanficfare, save everything to epubs, and the only stories that should ever change are incomplete fanfics.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by fanficdude1

changing formats might not update the last_modified date, but presumably adding new chapters will. i use fanficfare, save everything to epubs, and the only stories that should ever change are incomplete fanfics.

Adding new chapters will change last_modified only if the process (the plugin) also changes metadata for the book. Changing a book file has no effect on the last_modified date.