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Old 01-27-2020, 10:58 PM   #1310
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Originally Posted by MarjaE View Post
Okay, I'm trying *, *, csvtest, so it should work with any selected files, but it still doesn't work.

It looks like Import List is intended to import a list, or update metadata for a list of books, and may not work to update metadata for selected books.
The Import List plugin doesn't work on the books selected in the library when you start it. The input CSV file needs to have information in it to be able to find the books that are to be updated. Or enough information to add a new book. It does this using the title and the author. If they are in the CSV, then you need to use the "Fields" button to set which columns in the CSV contain the values.

Even if it was limited to the selected books, you still need some method to match the records in the CSV with the book in the library as it is unlikely that the books would be in the same order in both. Or at least it would be a pain to have to make sure the order matched each time you wanted to do this.
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