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Originally Posted by chaley
With standard calibre you can reorder them but you can't exclude them.
Job spy claims to do it. The plugin's description under "Look and Feel GUI Tools" says "Protect/Unprotect (Hide/Show) a Custom Column from the 'Edit Metadata' dialogs (excluding the 'S&R' tab within Bulk Edit)." I don't use the plugin so I can't give a screen shot.
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found it - but I should have taken heed of Alice's whispers as I clicked Submit button. "We've been down this rabbit hole before, sunshine."
If a column is 'Protected' via JS, the setting survives a Library Check (database vacuum) but not a Library Restore.
But there's a bigger catch-22: if a custom column's 'editable' flag is set to 0 (which is what JS does) the custom column is indeed hidden in MDE… and, in the Book List it becomes Read Only, so no F2. Which makes sense to me, even though it's not what I want.
Another option would be a button for each custom long text column (that popped the long text editor, a'la F2 in the book list) rather than embedded sub-dialogues - that would get rid of the clutter and make navigation easier.
The attached screen shot shows an extreme example of the issue I'm seeking to address.
BR