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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
I'm not sure what you mean, but I think you assume a greater degree of FFF-Calibre integration than exists.
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I am new to using both Calibre and FFF, and I am learning! FFF is pretty darn awesome, so that could be lending itself to this impression. I am impressed by everything that it can do! Thanks for making it! (I hope this is an ok place to say thank you).
Perhaps, I am meddling with powers I can't possibly comprehend! Probably just a part of learning something new. But I may be in over my head.
On that note, thanks for the link to the wiki! So much info is contained there. It’s fabulous. I don’t want to bug you on here every time I have a question; Especially if there’s a place I can study to learn before asking a question here.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
I refer to the data FFF collects and handles as "metadata entries", which are separate from Calibre data, AKA columns. Simplifying a bit, FFF metadata entries are divided into 'standard' entries collected for most/all sites and 'site specific' entries that are only used by that site. For example, every site has title and author; snapeflavours is potionsandsnitches.org only.
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Ok, great. This is very helpful. I think I get this concept.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
If you want FFF to populate a Calibre custom column on download/update, you can set it in the FFF Custom Columns config tab (for standard metadata entries) in personal.ini with custom_columns_settings.
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Yep, this is the thing I am working on. Sorry for not being more specific with my first question. I included more specifics below.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
If you want a Calibre custom column to appear in your ebooks' title page on update (it's assumed the Calibre book is created during initial download), there's a checkbox in the FFF personal.ini config tab 'Pass Calibre Columns into FanFicFare on Update/Overwrite' and a button to show you want what FFF metadata entry names each column will be placed in. They will automatically be labeled the same as the Calibre Columns.
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Yes! I love this feature! I found it 2 weeks ago and it made everything better. My columns are beautifully populated. Before, I was just trying to have a custom column show Ships. Felt like a manageable goal at the time, but I wasn’t able to make it happen. Selecting this checkbox in the FFF personal.ini config tab made it happen. Clicking the box for 'Pass Calibre Columns into FanFicFare on Update/Overwrite', changed everything! Gave me hope to try more things with FFF. Prior to this, I was trying to do things with metadata entries and basically seeing no results.
I want to figure out how to populate a custom column with either type of metadata entries, standard & site specific entries. I can probably figure this out from the wiki, now that I know where to look.
But I think part of where my problem is, and/or is indicated here:
Under the FFF config tab for Custom Columns, I see the name of the column I made on the left, but don't know what metadata value type to fill it with. The name of the column isn’t listed as an option in the menu. I presume this is related to it not being standard data entries, or if site specific, the personal.INI is incorrect.
However, it’s listed in the drop down menu under Special Column, Update/Override Error Column has several of my column names listed, even ones that seem to be populating?
Example: I have a column for Fandom, set to seek #Fandom, but the metadata value type I chose is Category. It seems to be working.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
You can then used those metadata entry names in titlepage_entries or logpage_entries.
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OK. I haven’t changed anything under the section for Titlepage_entries. Seemed like updating the Title Page was a good future goal.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
The FFF github project has a wiki which also has an FAQ.
A lot of INI settings are documented primarily in defaults.ini. You can see the defaults.ini for FFF Calibre plugin from the button on the FFF personal.ini config tab , or on github. |
Thank you for all of these! I am glad to discover the wiki.
I was trying the idea discussed in this thread. (Post numbers #8111, #10105 and #10106.)
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...postcount=8111
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ostcount=10105
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ostcount=10106
This idea seemed smart. Have a column with all the Tags, and a column for Tags I edited (cleaned up) before I start learning anything Replace metadata. But, this may not be necessary at this time. I figured it was a good thing to explore next - cleaning up tags.
I tried working with this code, from #10106 under the archiveofourown section of personal INI. So far, I’m stuck. But now, I have the wiki to explore. It may hold the info I need to GROK!