How do I interrogate the identifiers field?

[anthony.burton4]

In the title search, I have a need to find books with say a Goodreads Id in the Identifiers field.

Currently I can find those with ANY identifier: "Identifiers:true"
But I've tried Identifiers:"Goodreads" etc, and this doesn't work.

I note that in the metadata bulk update screen, when you select Identifiers as the search field, you get a new combi: Identifier Type. Presumably there is a way to incorporate this into the Search expression, but I cannot guess what it is.

Anyone know?

Thanks

[Sami]

Do you mean something like this? Gotta have that equal sign, you should be able to select/deselect your books with goodreads ids from the tag browser.

identifiers:"=goodreads:"

[chaley]

From the search section of the calibre user manual:

Identifiers (e.g., isbn, doi, lccn etc) also use an extended syntax. First, note that an identifier has the form type:value, as in isbn:123456789. The extended syntax permits you to specify independently which type and value to search for. Both the type and the value parts of the query can use equality, contains, or regular expression matches. Examples:

• identifiers:true will find books with any identifier.
• identifiers:false will find books with no identifier.
• identifiers:123 will search for books with any type having a value containing 123.
• identifiers:=123456789 will search for books with any type having a value equal to 123456789.
• identifiers:=isbn: and identifiers:isbn:true will find books with a type equal to isbn having any value
• identifiers:=isbn:false will find books with no type equal to isbn.
• identifiers:=isbn:123 will find books with a type equal to isbn having a value containing 123.
• identifiers:=isbn:=123456789 will find books with a type equal to isbn having a value equal to 123456789.
• identifiers:i:1 will find books with a type containing an i having a value containing a 1.

[anthony.burton4]

Thanks chaley - exactly what I was after!