New Quick View feature

[jesscat]

I've tried activating this feature - adding it to my context menu. But when I click it (or click Q) when I have a book selected, all that happens is that a pop-up window appears with some empty panes in it - "Items" on the left, and then one with three headings, Title, Author, Series, on the right. But all are totally empty. This happens with every book I've selected - everything empty.

This seems very strange to me. Am I doing something wrong? What should this feature be doing? Should there be something in that window, or do I need to do something else?

I'd love any help anyone can offer...

[chaley]

Opening the window does nothing interesting except to open the window.

To get information, with the window open, click on a category column (tags, series, publisher, authors, etc) on a book in the library view. Quickview will show you on the left-hand side the items in that category applied to the selected book. The first item in that list will be selected, and quickview will show you on the right-hand side all the books in your library with that item applied. Click on an different item to see all the books with that different item. Example usages: quickly seeing what other books:
- have a tag that is applied to the currently selected book,
- are in the same series
- have the same values in a custom column
- are written by one of the same authors
without changing the sort or search in the library view.

Double-click on a book to select that book in the library view. This will also change the items display (the left-hand side) to show the items in the newly-selected book.

Shift- (or Ctrl-) double-click on a book to select that book in the library view and then open the edit metadata dialog on that book.

[jesscat]

Thank you! This helps immensely.

And very cool feature - very useful. I love being able to see all the other books by the same author (or in a series) without having to leave the current library view. But it's the ability to directly edit metadata that is the icing - that's great! Thanks for this!

[GRiker]

Brilliant.

G

[jackie_w]

I like this new feature.

I have a couple of questions.

• On my PC (WinXP) only the top half of the window seems to be used. Is this deliberate?
  
• Also, if sorting by Series in the Quick View window, the series_index is sorting alphabetically not numerically.

Is it just me? Screencap attached.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

[*]On my PC (WinXP) only the top half of the window seems to be used. Is this deliberate?

No. I never expanded the window that far, so I never noticed that space.

There is a widget left over from a vertical layout test that starts taking space after a time. That widget is now gone.

[*]Also, if sorting by Series in the Quick View window, the series_index is sorting alphabetically not numerically.

True, and it may stay that way. The sort function is quite primitive, and I am not sure I can work in multi-criteria sorts. Will look.

[jackie_w]

Thanks for speedy response, 6 mins - not bad!!

[chaley]

I was able to add multi-criteria sort, so series will sort series:alpha,series_index:numeric.

Will be in the next release.

[jackie_w]

Even better!