Is there a way to add a boolean value to a User Category?

[ownedbycats]

Saved search for #bool didn't show up in the item list.

Context: I combined Kobo collections and reading lists into a user category. I also want to add #onkobo:yes.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Saved search for #bool didn't show up in the item list.

Context: I combined Kobo collections and reading lists into a user category. I also want to add #onkobo:yes.

No. Only items that can appear in the tag browser can be added to a user category.

If this is important enough then you can do it using a composite column that displays #onkobo and has "Show in tag browser" checked.

[ownedbycats]

Technically, my saved search appears in the tag browser. Composite column ought to work though. thank you.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Technically, my saved search appears in the tag browser.

[chaley]

BTW: another way to solve this problem is to change from using user categories to a tags-like composite column, where the column computes the "names" of all "user categories" the book would be in. Of course, for this solution to work the names must be computable (not arbitrary), but given that they come from saved searches that shouldn't be a problem.

[ownedbycats]

I'm working on making a new column, #kobostatus. I just borrowed the template from my column icon. (I am planning to change the icons to pull from #kobostatus once I got it working.)

program:

k = $#kobocoll;

if check_yes_no('#onkobo', 0, 1, 0) then 'Send to Device'
elif check_yes_no('#onkobo', 0, 0, 1) then
	if list_contains(k, ',', '^Kobo Store$', '1', '') then 'Kobo Store'
	elif list_contains(k, ',', '^Send to Device$', '1', '') then 'Send to Device'
	else 'Sideloaded'
	fi
fi

Unfortunately, while it works in the tester, in the column itself it just outputs TEMPLATE ERROR Formatter: Unknown function list_contains near 'list_contains' on line 7.

[chaley]

Apparently there is a bug in column evaluation where function aliases are ignored. I haven't figured out yet why.

You can fix it by using the original name 'in_list' instead of the alias 'list_contains'.

[ownedbycats]

This worked

program:

k = $#kobocoll;

if check_yes_no('#onkobo', 0, 1, 0) then 'Send to Device'
elif check_yes_no('#onkobo', 0, 0, 1) then
    if 'Kobo Store' in k then 'Kobo Store'
	elif 'Send to Device' in k then 'Send to Device'
	else 'Sideloaded'
	fi
fi

Ideally I'd want to change it to an exact match '^Kobo Store$', but I forgot how to make it use a regexp and it's not likely to overlap any of my other collections anyways.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

This worked

program:

k = $#kobocoll;

if check_yes_no('#onkobo', 0, 1, 0) then 'Send to Device'
elif check_yes_no('#onkobo', 0, 0, 1) then
    if 'Kobo Store' in k then 'Kobo Store'
	elif 'Send to Device' in k then 'Send to Device'
	else 'Sideloaded'
	fi
fi

Ideally I'd want to change it to an exact match '^Kobo Store$', but I forgot how to make it use a regexp and it's not likely to overlap any of my other collections anyways.

Is #kobocol tags-like? If so you should use 'inlist' instead of 'in'.

[ownedbycats]

Oh I'll fix that then

[ownedbycats]

Also added one for borrowed books

program:

k = $#kobocoll;

if check_yes_no('#onkobo', 0, 1, 0) then 'Send to Device'
elif check_yes_no('#onkobo', 0, 0, 1) then
    if 'Kobo Store' inlist k then 'Kobo Store'
	elif 'Loans' inlist k then 'On Loan'
	elif 'Send to Device' inlist k then 'Send to Device'
	else 'Sideloaded'
	fi
fi

Since I'm here anyways: Is there a way to automatically add any new items from a column to a user category? Thankfully, more transient items (e.g. "send to device") are just marked as 'not on any book' when not in use so I won't need to keep re-adding those.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Since I'm here anyways: Is there a way to automatically add any new items from a column to a user category? Thankfully, more transient items (e.g. "send to device") are just marked as 'not on any book' when not in use so I won't need to keep re-adding those.

If I understand correctly, if you add (for example) a new tag 'foo' then you want all books with that item added automatically to a user category. No, this isn't possible. Also, I don't see why bother trying to build it (I won't) as it would be duplicating what happens with categories.

If you can specify the rules then you should be able to do what you want with a composite column that generates a hierarchical tags-like value. The first level would be the category name (the 'user category') and the second level would be the category value. These would show in the tag browser as a tree of values inside categories.

[ownedbycats]

That makes sense. Anyways, I got it all set up the way I wanted. I even found that Job Spy's tag browser icons applied to #kobostatus will copy over to the user category.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by chaley

Apparently there is a bug in column evaluation where function aliases are ignored. I haven't figured out yet why.

This problem is now fixed in source.