Editing Templates Disabled

[marshie250]

Hello!
I've noticed that after I updated Calibre to 6.1.0, I can no longer edit custom columns built by other columns by clicking on a book in that column from the library screen. When I do, the text of the column changes to "editing templates disabled" and I cannot change it. I can still edit the template by going through Preferences>Add Your Own Columns, but it is difficult to edit the longer program templates in that smaller box, and as someone who just started learning this feature, I liked having the instant feedback of the previous editing window so I could see if I made a mistake without restarting Calibre to see if I return an error.

I've looked through what feels like every option in the Preferences, but I cannot find a way to reenable the Editing Templates function. Am I missing something, or should I just roll back Calibre to a previous version?

[kovidgoyal]

As far as I know it is always enabled and it works for me. But this is chaley's bailiwick, he will probably see this later.

[chaley]

It should work and works for me. However, editing the template is disabled of calibre is waiting to be restarted. And BTW: you can open the full template editor from the one line editor using right click

[chaley]

One more thing: if you have checked the box Preferences / Look & feel / Edit metadata / Tab key doesn't edit column templates in the book list then you must use F2 (or your platform edit key) to edit a template. Double click and other methods won't work.

[marshie250]

OK thank you! I spent the afternoon rebuilding the library from scratch and it is working, as I got the same message if I restored a backup. But if it happens again I'll know what to try!