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Sabardeyn · 01-11-2016, 08:44 AM

I've been trying to perform a search from the GUI's search field that will display all books that have no content in the description field (#desc). Basically I'm trying to limit the books displayed to only those that need that field to be filled out (via cut & pasted metadata from a 3rd party website).

I've tried assorted variants of desc: blank, empty, _empty, etc but the result is always 0 matching books.

The closest I can come is not desc:"Description" which, quite surprisingly, only lists books that actually includes the exact word "Description" in the field (which is placed there by the cut & pasted metadata). So it's the exact opposite of what I want.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?

01-11-2016, 08:44 AM	#1
Sabardeyn Guru Posts: 644 Karma: 1242364 Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Right Coast Device: PC (Calibre), Nexus 7 2013 (Moon+ Pro), HTC HD2/Leo (Freda)	[Search] Show non-null #desc books only? I've been trying to perform a search from the GUI's search field that will display all books that have no content in the description field (#desc). Basically I'm trying to limit the books displayed to only those that need that field to be filled out (via cut & pasted metadata from a 3rd party website). I've tried assorted variants of desc: blank, empty, _empty, etc but the result is always 0 matching books. The closest I can come is not desc:"Description" which, quite surprisingly, only lists books that actually includes the exact word "Description" in the field (which is placed there by the cut & pasted metadata). So it's the exact opposite of what I want. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?