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Originally Posted by KevinH
What if we did go to a two-stage approach with a scrolling form style interface with pulldowns with just the most used and basic set of metadata on the first stage and an advanced button to load the current metadata editor, updated with any changes on the first form.
If we did that, then what information should appear on the first form (it could even be an html form that is create on the fly and loaded in a Preview-like tool).
book main title
book secondary title
book series number
book series title
primary language pulldown
secondary language pulldown
author1 with file-as
author2 with file-as
author3 with file-as
contributor1 with associated role pulldown
contributor2 with associated role pulldown
contributor3 with associated role pulldown
subject
keywords
description bigger box supporting html markup
identifier1 with pull down for identification type
identifier2 with pull down for identification type
publication date
and what else?
How about that approach?
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First thanks to both you and Diapdealer for your work on Sigil over the years.
This idea sounds workable. If you decide to go with this approach, I would suggest adding the following fields: ISBN, Copyright Date, Publisher.
If you decide not to make major changes the GUI for the Metadata Editor could I request a small change. Would it be possible to position the cursor in the 'Value' column of the editor when you click on 'Add Metadata' or 'Add Property'? At the moment when you click on either of the buttons the cursor is left in the Name column!