List By Title

[JeffGeorge]

Is it possible to have the an expandible list of books by title in the Tag Browser pane? It's nice to have Series, Authors, etc., but what I really want to see is the list of books in my library so that I don't add books I already have in there. Is this possible?

[theducks]

The Tag Browser is a tool to help build a Search.
The Search Results have 2 modes: Highlighted (I believe this is the default) or Results only.
Preferences: Searching is where you adjust the behavior

[JeffGeorge]

Originally Posted by theducks

The Tag Browser is a tool to help build a Search.
The Search Results have 2 modes: Highlighted (I believe this is the default) or Results only.
Preferences: Searching is where you adjust the behavior

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that I have to do a search to see a complete list of books by title?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JeffGeorge

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that I have to do a search to see a complete list of books by title?

Yes, and title is not in the Tag Browser anyway.

If yo want to find if you have a Title, simply type its name in the search
of coarse, that will give you results if that word is used elsewhere.
Search

title:<the title you are looking for>

only searches The Title column.

Usually folk search for the Author to see if they have that book Or by Series to see if it is missing.
Find Duplicates Plugin helps you identify dups

[JeffGeorge]

Originally Posted by theducks

Yes, and title is not in the Tag Browser anyway.

If yo want to find if you have a Title, simply type its name in the search
of coarse, that will give you results if that word is used elsewhere.
Search

title:<the title you are looking for>

only searches The Title column.

Usually folk search for the Author to see if they have that book Or by Series to see if it is missing.
Find Duplicates Plugin helps you identify dups

I guess this is only useful if you're not using the Cover Browser or Cover Grid. I don't see any other way to get a list of all my books if you are using those two things. I really don't understand why there can't be an entry in the Tag Browser for Title. Title is as relevant as Author or Series.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by JeffGeorge

I guess this is only useful if you're not using the Cover Browser or Cover Grid. I don't see any other way to get a list of all my books if you are using those two things. I really don't understand why there can't be an entry in the Tag Browser for Title. Title is as relevant as Author or Series.

The tag browser is used to browse items that can appear in more than one book. Title doesn't do that except in rare cases where the two books have the same title.

That said, if you really want to do this then create a "Column built from other columns" with the template {title}. Check the "Show in tag browser" box.

Depending on how you think and how you use titles, you might want to change Preferences / Tweaks / Control formatting of title and series when used in templates (ID: save_template_title_series_sorting) to 'strictly_alphabetic'.

[JeffGeorge]

Originally Posted by chaley

The tag browser is used to browse items that can appear in more than one book. Title doesn't do that except in rare cases where the two books have the same title.

That said, if you really want to do this then create a "Column built from other columns" with the template {title}. Check the "Show in tag browser" box.

Thanks for that tip. It sounds exactly like what I want to do. Where would I go to do that? I confess that, from a technical perspective, I don't really know how to do much with Calibre.

Depending on how you think and how you use titles, you might want to change Preferences / Tweaks / Control formatting of title and series when used in templates (ID: save_template_title_series_sorting) to 'strictly_alphabetic'.

I'm fine with the default use of Title in the list that shows if I remove the cover browser and grid from the Layout, but I want to just add a quick way to see the alphabetized library. A quick expandable list on the tag browser would be perfect if I can just figure out how to execute your instructions.

[theducks]

The Library VIEW sorts simply by clicking a Column heading.
You can 'bias' the sorts by first sorting the column to provide Bias

Sort by Title, then by Author. That leave the Authors books in Title order

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JeffGeorge

Thanks for that tip. It sounds exactly like what I want to do. Where would I go to do that?

Preferences -> Add your own columns -> Add custom column

[ownedbycats]

Alternately to {title}, I use this to display the first letter of the title.

{title_sort:'contains(t=uppercase(re($, '^\W*(\w).*$','\1')), '\d', '0-9', t)'}

[BetterRed]

@JeffGeorge - you could add the Sort By tool to relevant Toolbars and/or menus, I have it in the library and device context menus.



BR

[JeffGeorge]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Alternately to {title}, I use this to display the first letter of the title.

{title_sort:'contains(t=uppercase(re($, '^\W*(\w).*$','\1')), '\d', '0-9', t)'}

Attachment 197665

This is a thing of beauty. This is what I'm going to try to do.

[JeffGeorge]

So I get this far and I can't get any further. I'm starting to really feel stupid with this software.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Alternately to {title}, I use this to display the first letter of the title.

{title_sort:'contains(t=uppercase(re($, '^\W*(\w).*$','\1')), '\d', '0-9', t)'}

How is this better than using {title_sort} with first letter grouping? Is it just the 0-9?

Also, why not make it hierarchical? Something like

program:
	ts = re($title_sort, '\.', ':');
	contains(t=uppercase(re(ts, '^\W*(\w).*$','\1')), '\d', '0-9', t) & '.' & ts

gives this


EDIT: The initial re() is there to change periods to colons so they won't confuse the hierarchy.

EDIT 2: If you use standard first letter grouping then you don't need to change the periods or make the column hierarchical.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by JeffGeorge

So I get this far and I can't get any further. I'm starting to really feel stupid with this software.

You aren't creating the right kind of column, and you aren't following the rules for the lookup name. The column type must be "Column built from other columns". You must check the "Show in tag browser" box.

See the attached screen capture for how to create the right kind of custom column. I used names I like: "tb_title" and "TB Title". You might want to use different ones, but then be sure to follow the rules