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Originally Posted by Pr.BarnArt
If it is only mondourania, a 2 stepsolution like the one I suggested for the goodreads decimal rating and shown in a demo. A small tweak to the metadata plug-in to retrieve the original title, and a userinterface to set those info into the db.
To my knowledge it is not possible to do it in only a metadata plug-in.
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Forgive me, but I'm quite a rookie here. I already have an idea on how to retrieve the original title from the website, but I'm missing the difference between a metadata and a userinterface plugin.
My feeling is that they are spawned from different classes, so that the resulting metadata object doesn't have access to custom fields properties and/or methods, instead userinterface object does (but it's just a hunch).
If this is correct, my problem would be to update a hundred books simultaneously: if I have to click a userinterface for every one of them, it would be quite boring...
If any developer is reading, is Pr.BarnArt's assumption correct ? A custom field can't be updated from a metadata plugin ? If yes, is it a difficult task to implement it ?
Thanks