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Originally Posted by Inferno
I tried the View Manager for the first time and had to redo my column view by hand to get it the way I always use it lol. Not used to this plugin for sure.
I have created the alphaauthor column based on authors. Now, I am not used to this but am I right in thinking this means that changes I make to the authors field automatically changes the alphaauthor column?
In terms of how a column like this works, does it add much in drive space requirement? or is it just a "reflection" of the authors column that will sort alphabetically by the actual content of the field?
It does appear to be solving my problem of it taking too long to compare a directory to calibre
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Inferno - Columns built from other columns (virtual columns) are created as needed from the source column(s), hence changes is the source column(s) are immediately reflected in the virtual columns.
Test: show the Author and the Author Alpha columns in the book list, F2 on an Author cell, change it, hit enter, the new value will be reflected in the Author Alpha column.
The disk space is trivial. A few hundred bytes in the database for the virtual column and view definitions, similarly in the metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file.
BR