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Originally Posted by Wiggo
- So I enter all data in this generator/PI and it will be displayed in book details?
- No need of custom columns and composite columns for this kind of info anymore?
- It's searchable?
- It's sortable? I don't think so
My main focus would be pen-names, related books and series.
If that were possible without a big template thing, I would be very pleased. My calibre has already become noticeably slower in the meantime |
I can't control what a "generator" plugin will do. I don't intend to write such a plugin. Also note that there is no guarantee that a generator will be fast. It could slow down the display of book details if, for example, it does web queries to generate the displayed information.
As for no need for other custom columns, that depends on what you use them for. Perhaps some eventual plugin can replace them -- I can't say.
The generator plugin will have the option of providing searchable text. However, like all searches this will find books, not (for example) series information. The plugin can provide its own interface to search the series info.
It isn't clear to me what it means to sort by the generated text. It might be meaningless given that "sort" works on the booklist, not the stored series information.