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BetterRed · 09-20-2014, 06:18 PM

@DaltonST - I hope it's safe to ask a question about the plugin's functionality, rather than its preferred eco-system, or whatever this week's in-word is with the Geek Nobility

From what I can gather the plug-in mandates that I create a column called genres/Genres, is there any chance of changing the plugin so that I create a column of the required type and put the name I want into the PI's configuration. Example: the Count Pages PI requires the creation of custom columns but the user determines the names thereof.

One of my pet private peeves about calibre is that I can't change the name of the 'standard columns' - eg for my journals library it suits me to put the Journal Name in Author and the Issue no/Date/Month in Title. I would love have the wherewithal to relabel them Journal and Issue for that library.

Maybe I could set up a column with the name I want with type "Column built from other columns, behaves like tags" with a template of {genre} and hide the Genre Column. I did try that with Author & Title in my Journals library, it was a PITA workflow wise - so I dropped the derived columns, in favour of misleading column labels Ψ²

pssst : does the PI work with calibre 2.3

BR

09-20-2014, 06:18 PM	#42
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,848 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@DaltonST - I hope it's safe to ask a question about the plugin's functionality, rather than its preferred eco-system, or whatever this week's in-word is with the Geek Nobility From what I can gather the plug-in mandates that I create a column called genres/Genres, is there any chance of changing the plugin so that I create a column of the required type and put the name I want into the PI's configuration. Example: the Count Pages PI requires the creation of custom columns but the user determines the names thereof. One of my pet private peeves about calibre is that I can't change the name of the 'standard columns' - eg for my journals library it suits me to put the Journal Name in Author and the Issue no/Date/Month in Title. I would love have the wherewithal to relabel them Journal and Issue for that library. Maybe I could set up a column with the name I want with type "Column built from other columns, behaves like tags" with a template of {genre} and hide the Genre Column. I did try that with Author & Title in my Journals library, it was a PITA workflow wise - so I dropped the derived columns, in favour of misleading column labels Ψ² pssst : does the PI work with calibre 2.3 BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-20-2014 at 07:06 PM.