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Originally Posted by cathlyn
Hello,
I have alot of books in more than one language and I would like to link the book to its tranlation (I want a link in the book info panel on the right that I can click on that either brings me to the translation or opens a search where only this book is displayed in all available languages (like with the tags)).
Do any of you kow a good way of doing that?
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@cathlyn:
This is what I did:
- Created a Custom Column called #original_title
- Ran the GUI Tool "Extract Original Title/Translator to Update Custom Columns [EPUBS]" which is part of the tool box plug-in Job Spy. It is called Job Spy because its first tool was Job Spy, but it has 20 Tools, only one of which relates to jobs.
- Created a Virtual Library with the criterion of "#original_title:true".
- Created a View Manager View that was customized for that Virtual Library.
- Used the GUI Tool called "Apply View Manager View Based Upon Virtual Library" to automatically switch to the proper View whenever I select that particular Virtual Library.
- Whenever the "title" was really the "#original_title" because it was the "original language", I used Bulk Edit Metadata to copy the 'title' to '#original_title' so it would link to its translations.
The MultiColumnSearch plug-in also has an Inter-Book Search Query capability originally created to deal with "#original_title". The ToolTip for that pushbutton on the first Tab is attached below.
DaltonST