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igorius · 08-29-2022, 02:08 PM

Ok, the program is the result of creating a rule in "coloring column", which i converted to "advanced rule". Due to the (in my opinion) not existing or extremely bad documentation - this was the first entry to get something changed: here the coloring columns.
So the whole syntax of the programming language and therefore the "what can i achieve" is a mystery for me.
In the end i was searching, reading, trying whatever -> mostly without any success.
So for example in no place i can find that i cannot change values in columns.

The resulting color which is a rest of "what do i have to do/enter there" - No clue how that thing works.

What i want to do:
When my Pocketbook gets synced with calibre, in calibre the #read gets set when on my PB the book is finished reading. Maybe the #reading (progress) gets some day programmed in the plugin. Meanwhile i want to set the #reading to 100 when the #read gets set from the plugin. At the same time when the #read gets set i want to set the #last_read to the actual date.
I hope i can tell what i want (my english is not the best)
I was looking to create a plugin, but the documentation for programming plugins is the same mess. And whatever plugin i was looking in - nothing is documented.

So i dont understand what the people did - and when a plugin gets abandonned, no one is able to repair that thing, except by old bears who run since years with the development team, but little babies like me are lost, which makes the whole thing a headcrasher...

So finally its funny that you dont understand me, i dont understand what you mean with "Are you intending to display something in a composite column?" What is a composite column? "take a and b and put it together in a field of a column? Like its done by coloring? Say pdf gets colored red, epub blue? Or is it like the isbn-column: Only isbn is shown, even when i have bib-number, asin or whatever is set in the metadata-field? In this case the metadata-field is not changed, right. But i want a change in a metadata-field like if #read is set (test(yes/no), then #reading := 100 and #last_read := actual date.

I apreciate much that you try to help me, thank you very much!!!

08-29-2022, 02:08 PM	#5
igorius Zealot Posts: 123 Karma: 34 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: ipad & inkpad X	Ok, the program is the result of creating a rule in "coloring column", which i converted to "advanced rule". Due to the (in my opinion) not existing or extremely bad documentation - this was the first entry to get something changed: here the coloring columns. So the whole syntax of the programming language and therefore the "what can i achieve" is a mystery for me. In the end i was searching, reading, trying whatever -> mostly without any success. So for example in no place i can find that i cannot change values in columns. The resulting color which is a rest of "what do i have to do/enter there" - No clue how that thing works. What i want to do: When my Pocketbook gets synced with calibre, in calibre the #read gets set when on my PB the book is finished reading. Maybe the #reading (progress) gets some day programmed in the plugin. Meanwhile i want to set the #reading to 100 when the #read gets set from the plugin. At the same time when the #read gets set i want to set the #last_read to the actual date. I hope i can tell what i want (my english is not the best) I was looking to create a plugin, but the documentation for programming plugins is the same mess. And whatever plugin i was looking in - nothing is documented. So i dont understand what the people did - and when a plugin gets abandonned, no one is able to repair that thing, except by old bears who run since years with the development team, but little babies like me are lost, which makes the whole thing a headcrasher... So finally its funny that you dont understand me, i dont understand what you mean with "Are you intending to display something in a composite column?" What is a composite column? "take a and b and put it together in a field of a column? Like its done by coloring? Say pdf gets colored red, epub blue? Or is it like the isbn-column: Only isbn is shown, even when i have bib-number, asin or whatever is set in the metadata-field? In this case the metadata-field is not changed, right. But i want a change in a metadata-field like if #read is set (test(yes/no), then #reading := 100 and #last_read := actual date. I apreciate much that you try to help me, thank you very much!!!