Platform Windows 10 2004, Calibre 5.5
I store Author information (bio, obits, pictures etc) in Evernote, which I access directly, or via calibre's Author Link field.
I would like to use the calibre URL scheme to show the books for an author, this is as far as I've progressed:
This
calibre://switch-library/Test performs as expected - starts calibre if not started and switches to my Test Library
From this
calibre://search/Library_Name?q=query
I assumed this calibre://search/Test?Better would switch to the Test library and do the search for Better.
But it doesn't do the library switch before doing the search on the current library for
Better. Nor does it switch to the Test library if calibre is not running, it opens the 'last used' library and searches it.
This
calibre://search/Test?authors:"=Better Red" does nothing. I tried replacing "Better Red" with hex, as in
calibre://search/Test?authors:=42657474657220526564 but that also does nothing.
For my specific use, something like
calibre://show-author/Library_Name/author_id would be ideal --- would need to show the author_id somewhere - e.g. a column in Manage Authors that could be copied.
FWIW : I'm using Word as the testbed, I'll get to Evernote once I get it working in Word.
BR