06-26-2011, 06:58 PM | #1 |
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New Quick View feature
I've tried activating this feature - adding it to my context menu. But when I click it (or click Q) when I have a book selected, all that happens is that a pop-up window appears with some empty panes in it - "Items" on the left, and then one with three headings, Title, Author, Series, on the right. But all are totally empty. This happens with every book I've selected - everything empty.
This seems very strange to me. Am I doing something wrong? What should this feature be doing? Should there be something in that window, or do I need to do something else? I'd love any help anyone can offer... |
06-26-2011, 08:16 PM | #2 |
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Opening the window does nothing interesting except to open the window.
To get information, with the window open, click on a category column (tags, series, publisher, authors, etc) on a book in the library view. Quickview will show you on the left-hand side the items in that category applied to the selected book. The first item in that list will be selected, and quickview will show you on the right-hand side all the books in your library with that item applied. Click on an different item to see all the books with that different item. Example usages: quickly seeing what other books: - have a tag that is applied to the currently selected book, - are in the same series - have the same values in a custom column - are written by one of the same authors without changing the sort or search in the library view. Double-click on a book to select that book in the library view. This will also change the items display (the left-hand side) to show the items in the newly-selected book. Shift- (or Ctrl-) double-click on a book to select that book in the library view and then open the edit metadata dialog on that book. Last edited by chaley; 06-26-2011 at 08:19 PM. |
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06-27-2011, 05:31 AM | #3 |
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Thank you! This helps immensely.
And very cool feature - very useful. I love being able to see all the other books by the same author (or in a series) without having to leave the current library view. But it's the ability to directly edit metadata that is the icing - that's great! Thanks for this! |
06-27-2011, 08:01 AM | #4 |
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Brilliant.
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06-27-2011, 11:52 AM | #5 |
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I like this new feature.
I have a couple of questions.
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Quote:
There is a widget left over from a vertical layout test that starts taking space after a time. That widget is now gone. Quote:
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Thanks for speedy response, 6 mins - not bad!!
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06-27-2011, 12:28 PM | #8 |
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I was able to add multi-criteria sort, so series will sort series:alpha,series_index:numeric.
Will be in the next release. |
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Even better!
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