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Originally Posted by chaley
I don't think a plugin can practically do what you want. It would need to intercept the internal calibre open format code.
I do see at least two ways to get most of the way there. - In both cases, do the search you want then use right click in the search bar to get a copy of a calibre search URL for the current search.
- Use the Action Chains plugin (my preference because no column needs to show in book details)
- Create a custom column "Long test, like comments, not shown in the tag browser". Set "Interpret this column" as plain text. Name the column "Search" or somesuch. For each of your special books, put the appropriate search link in this field as is with no HTML.
- Create a chain to do the search. Give the chain a keyboard shortcut to make it easy to execute. The chain command is "Open with", with the calibre program as the handler (calibre.exe). Use a template to grab the search URL from the column you made.
- Use Book Details
- Create a Create a custom column "Long test, like comments, not shown in the tag browser". Set "Interpret this column" as HTML. Name the column "Search" or some such. For each of your special books, put the appropriate search link in this field. Use the Comments editor to enter the link with whatever text you want.
- In book details, click this link to do the search. You can place the link wherever you want in book details.
And of course you could the normal mechanisms. Put the tag/author/whatever on your special book. Clicking on that book opens book details where you can click on the item you applied to the book. This works well if the searches are simple. |
Thank you, both methods work well - however still a little clunky (though there is no more error popup)
Ideally it would be nice to double click a "book" genre as it is intuitive for users - but this has been a big help. Thank you very much!