10-04-2013, 01:55 PM
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Adding custom fields to the main UI
I was wondering if I can add a new field/column to the main metadata entry UI instead of a new tab .. is that possible ? if yes How?
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10-04-2013, 02:00 PM
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What Tab?
Preferences: Add your own columns: Now there IS a tweak for The edit metadata screen (but not for the Bulk mode) display Preferences: Tweaks: ( I will let you browse the possibilities  )
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10-04-2013, 02:47 PM
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if I open the edit metadata screen, there's BASIC METADATA tab and a CUSTOM METADATA tab.
I have a LARGE library to manage, for example I don't need the RATING part. I wanna replace it with another custom columns (say 'CATEGORY'). Is that possible ? Can I even add more to the BASIC METADATA tab or not ? |
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10-04-2013, 03:01 PM
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Use the Preference: Behavior: All on one tab option. Note: I misspoke saying Tweak. This is a Preferance |
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10-04-2013, 06:25 PM
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@karimnaguib - In addition to the layout options that the_ducks has told you about, these tweaks may help - there's one to order the custom columns - metadata_edit_custom_column_order - I'm not sure if its applied to bulk, and there's another one for custom column layout metadata_single_use_2_cols_for_custom_fields
Since chaley did some cosmetic but invaluable changes to the spreadsheet, and made it easy set dates and integers to undefined and I discovered I can edit custom comments from there too, I've said goodbye to the Edit Metadata dialogues for single book edits. I never found a combination of layouts and tweaks that resulted in an Edit Metadata dialogue with which I could work productively. Now I don't care. ETA : Another advantage of editing the cells is that you can arrange them in a sequence that suits your purpose, intermingling standard and custom columns and omitting irrelevant columns - eg for my journal library I don't have ratings, series or tags on the spreadsheet. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 10-05-2013 at 05:42 PM. Reason: added ETA |
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10-06-2013, 09:27 PM
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