[jecilop]

So, is there a tweak available to increase the capacity of the tag field (and author field)?

BOTTOM Line: SO......I think it's not about count as much as the "database field" that the GUI is filling in. I'm thinking it has a field size or character limit to it.

Any input?

WHAT happened:

At first I thought it was a count limit to the author field. Not all of my author entries will show. Let me point out that this is an attempt to get ALL of my authors in the author field. I promise there are good reasons outside the other search abilities of what Calibre already has.

However, when adding authors in a custom tag field last evening trying to "start over", I noticed it actually cut a name off and accepted part of it. After removing some of the last tags and trying again using a different variation of names at the end, the same thing happened.

Ex: John Mockingbird cuts off as John Mocki
The same thing would happen with another one when I deleted some from the end (using tag editor) and tried others.....sometimes the last name it accepted would cut off in some way.

What I do in order to add all authors is copy them to a tag style column for authors, then I use the tag style button for adding to the field and go through all of them. Then I would copy/paste them from the custom field to my default authors field. This is when I first discovered that there appeared to be a limit in the default authors field. I kept trying to add the authors that didn't make it, but it would not work. You can type them. They don't stay.

I decided to start over having edited my authors adding more and such.....when trying to group them all in the custom field styled as tags, it left a lot of them out ...Yes, I can click to add, but after OK they never make it in. Then I noticed that when I went back to the tag style list, the last author that made it was "cut off" as noted above.

SO......I think it's not about count as much as the "database field" that the GUI is filling in. I'm thinking it has a field size or character limit to it.

Any input?
I really don't want to have to create 2 entries to split all the authors.