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Henning · 01-20-2022, 10:46 AM

Dear all

I Like to learn more about editing metadata.

I do have a huge database with more than 3.500 items. I do have about 400 series in this collection and I try to manage this series with "extra books". This "extra books" store series-related-information: like a rating for the complete series or if/if not this series is finalized or if/if not I read all parts of the series...

To organize these information I created several columns. Unfortionate they also show up for books - but I guess that's how it is...

I would like to ask two questions:
1. The best option to handle the library would be to change the layout of the "view" <Basic metadata> -- Is this - anyhow - possible??

2. The second best option to handle the library would be to create two "file cards" instead of one. As far as I understand all columns are listed on one "file card" named <Custom metadata>. It would be helpful to define the content (and layout) of the "file cards" for columns and to define more than one.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

01-20-2022, 10:46 AM	#1
Henning Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Berlin Device: iPad	Managing metadata / more than two "file cards" possible Dear all I Like to learn more about editing metadata. I do have a huge database with more than 3.500 items. I do have about 400 series in this collection and I try to manage this series with "extra books". This "extra books" store series-related-information: like a rating for the complete series or if/if not this series is finalized or if/if not I read all parts of the series... To organize these information I created several columns. Unfortionate they also show up for books - but I guess that's how it is... I would like to ask two questions: 1. The best option to handle the library would be to change the layout of the "view" <Basic metadata> -- Is this - anyhow - possible?? 2. The second best option to handle the library would be to create two "file cards" instead of one. As far as I understand all columns are listed on one "file card" named <Custom metadata>. It would be helpful to define the content (and layout) of the "file cards" for columns and to define more than one. Any ideas? Thanks for your help.