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kiwidude · 03-05-2011, 04:56 AM

One of the plugin suggestions that came up was one that has the net effect of wanting to display rows in Calibre by some criteria that isn't handled by the search logic. Say for instance you wanted to find all books that had a cover smaller than certain dimensions/size.

So the plugin iterates through the data set and ends up with a bunch of calibre ids it wants to display in the library view.

Is there a way to display these? It's a not dissimilar issue to the discussion we had on duplicate detection - except for that we think adding a custom column is appropriate in which case a normal search based on that column is possible. Is adding a custom column the only way to display arbitrary ids?

03-05-2011, 04:56 AM	#1
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,731 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Displaying arbitrary results in search screen from plugin One of the plugin suggestions that came up was one that has the net effect of wanting to display rows in Calibre by some criteria that isn't handled by the search logic. Say for instance you wanted to find all books that had a cover smaller than certain dimensions/size. So the plugin iterates through the data set and ends up with a bunch of calibre ids it wants to display in the library view. Is there a way to display these? It's a not dissimilar issue to the discussion we had on duplicate detection - except for that we think adding a custom column is appropriate in which case a normal search based on that column is possible. Is adding a custom column the only way to display arbitrary ids?