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Originally Posted by Atherton25
... As far as I know (based on past questions) the only way to keep an edited version of a new title/author/description in the FFF metadata (specifically on the title page) is to manually add it into the personal.ini. ...
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It's a little involved, but I think you can do at least part of this.
- First, you'll need to identify (and/or create) the columns you want to hand edit.
- If they are columns that are auto-populated, make sure under the FFF Standard Columns and/or Custom Columns tabs that they are checked 'New Only' so FFF doesn't change them.
- Next, go to the personal.ini FFF tab. Towards the bottom, make sure "Pass Calibre Columns into FanFicFare on Update/Overwrite" is checked.
- Just under that, click the "Show Calibre Column Names" button. That will show you a list of your custom and standard Calibre columns and their FFF metadata entry names. Copy the names for the columns you care about somewhere for reference. Eg, you might want calibre_std_title, calibre_std_comments & calibre_cust_characters.
- Now go into personal.ini and add those (calibre_std_comments, etc) to titlepage_entries as you would like. Either by outright replacing the default titlepage_entries or using add_to_titlepage_entries, extra_titlepage_entries or even add_to_extra_titlepage_entries in appropriate sections. (I won't write an essay about the differences unless you need it.)
Example:
Code:
[defaults]
calibre_std_comments_label:My Comments
add_to_titlepage_entries:,calibre_std_title,calibre_std_comments,calibre_cust_characters
Some issues:
- During the download of a new story, there won't be any values for calibre_std_comments, etc, so they will be empty.
- The label for each of these (calibre_std_comments_label, etc) are automatically set to match the Calibre column name. You can also set them in personal.ini for your self.
- Trying to change the title page to use your calibre_std_title entirely (see wiki) would possible, but difficult--again, due to not having calibre_std_title available on initial download. You'd probably want/need to keep the site title even if you reduced its size.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atherton25
... I generally just remove the url identifier and add [old] to the title or something, then add the story again in it's new/revised form. *But* I did for a while use sorting to allow me to update the new chapters only (before I figured removing the URL and unchecking title/author allowed me to do a normal update via url rather than highlighting) ...
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I do the same; remove identifier, change title.
And I can vaguely imagine someone deliberately using VL to get 'duplicates'. But because the id and title/author searches were inconsistent and people were reporting it as a bug, not a feature, I'm going to assume that consistent searches that can't make duplicates are the best way to go.
If somebody says they were using it that way, I'll revisit it then.