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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I tried that a few months ago, but I don't think it I twigged that it's select cell and then select books - I think I assumed it iterated over all the books shown in the list - I'll reinstall AC and give it another go.
BR
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It probably didn't work. This chain uses a bespoke python template that "talks" directly to the calibre GUI to get the selected column then the selected books. I don't know how to do the same thing with standard action chain selection modifiers.
Bottom line: action chains can be used to run more-or-less arbitrary GUI processes using python templates. For me, this is preferable to building things into the GUI, because I avoid all sorts of maintenance and compatibility headaches. On the other hand, we might want to keep an index of this sort of thing, perhaps including template searches, so they are discoverable. At the moment, how to do that efficiently is a mystery.