[Turtle91]

Hello,

I had a couple questions about Calibre's metadata for custom columns.

1) Is there an option to disable saving of a custom column's metadata to the book? I use custom columns within the GUI to help manage my library, but there isn't a need desire to have all any of that data in the file itself.

2) If I must save it to the opf, is it possible to have a consistent output order?

<meta content="{&quot;kind&quot;: &quot;field&quot;, &quot;is_custom&quot;: true, &quot;is_category&quot;: false, &quot;#extra#&quot;: null, &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Formats&quot;, &quot;rec_index&quot;: 23, &quot;link_column&quot;: &quot;value&quot;, &quot;datatype&quot;: &quot;composite&quot;, &quot;is_csp&quot;: false, &quot;is_editable&quot;: true, &quot;is_multiple2&quot;: {}, &quot;colnum&quot;: 6, &quot;label&quot;: &quot;formats&quot;, &quot;#value#&quot;: &quot;EPUB&quot;, &quot;is_multiple&quot;: null, &quot;category_sort&quot;: &quot;value&quot;, &quot;search_terms&quot;: [&quot;#formats&quot;], &quot;table&quot;: &quot;custom_column_6&quot;, &quot;column&quot;: &quot;value&quot;, &quot;display&quot;: {&quot;description&quot;: &quot;&quot;, &quot;composite_template&quot;: &quot;{:'approximate_formats()'}&quot;, &quot;composite_sort&quot;: &quot;text&quot;, &quot;contains_html&quot;: false, &quot;use_decorations&quot;: 0, &quot;make_category&quot;: false}}" name="calibre:user_metadata:#formats" />

The name of the custom column consistently appears at the end of all that, but the 'value' changes location and can be somewhat difficult to find. Is it possible to have it always appear at the beginning of that list, or at the end just prior to the name??

NOTE: The position changes between books. Within the same book it is in a consistent relative position for each of the different custom columns.

Thanks!