[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Question: Some while ago in this thread there was some talk about a feature to update the title pages from the saved metadata. Was that ever implemented?

I don't remember that, can you link to it?

Or are you talking about this:

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Actually, there isn't anything in FFF to show empty metadata entries in the title page. I'll look into how difficult that would be to add.

The biggest question would be how to control it. One setting for 'show all titlepage_entries'? Some sites (looking at you, AO3) have a lot of extra entries. Or a list setting of 'show these titlepage_entries even when empty', (which would largely be a copy of titlepage_entries)? Or a modifier to put on items in the existing titlepage_entries like .NOREPL or .LIST used elsewhere?


There is already a mechanism for showing custom columns in the title page. If you look at FFF config personal.ini tab, the bottom couple options are whether to pass Calibre columns into FFF on update, and a bottom that will open a box to show you what they all are.

Then you can add those metadata entry names to the title page in personal.ini. For example, I have a Calibre custom column #extranotes and in personal.ini I have:

add_to_titlepage_entries:,calibre_cust_extranotes

Note that all of those calibre column values will always been from before the update and will all be empty on initial download.

.SHOW_EMPTY was implemented shortly after.