Book-details panels and keyboard focus

[BetterRed]

I'm referring to the detached BD panels (non-modal dialogue boxes) not the embedded BD panel under or to the right of the book list/grid, i.e:



After popping either of these (in my 'priority' order)

1. I can't find a way to return focus to the Book list via the keyboard, apart from closing the dialogue.
   
   There is a Focus the book list shortcut which I have set to Ctrl+Alt+L, alas it doesn't work. Assuming that can't be easily fixed, I suggest a Return to Book list item be provided in the panel context menu.
   
   And there needs to be a way of returning focus to a panel that's already 'popped' - I suggest by re-pressing the relevant shortcut, or via re-selection of the Book details menu item.
2. I can tab through the columns and initiate a library search by pressing Enter or Return. I find this significantly easier than fishing in the Tag Browser (which I normally have hidden).
   
   I can also access the column's context menu via the menu-key or Shift+F10, but on a category column the context menu is incomplete - there's no Manage <whatever> or Remove <whatever> option… yet there is if I right click… why the difference?
   
   AFAIK, the Menu key and Shift+10 are supposed to be the equivalent of right click on Windows, and I haven't found any other instances in calibre where that's not the case.
   
3. I can't Tab to the 'Configure' link, IMO it should get focus after Fit cover, but focus goes to Previous.

That's the problem with adding new features, someone will use them

BR

[BetterRed]

I could resolve the return of keyboard focus to book list by putting a calibre://show-book link into a long-text column.

However, I can't figure out how to do that for existing books via Bulk metadata search and replace.

I can replace an empty long-text field with a suitably wrapped calibre://show-book/_hex_-426f6f6b73/NNNNNN easy enough, but I don't want NNNNNN, I want the value of the id column.

I tried replacing NNNNNN with {id} to no avail.

Can templates be used in the replace string?

BR

[chaley]

Use template as the source field, (^.*$) as the search field, and \1 as the replacement field. Ensure that the source template produces the answer you want.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by chaley

Use template as the source field, (^.*$) as the search field, and \1 as the replacement field. Ensure that the source template produces the answer you want.

Thanks - I 'sort of' tried that, but I got hung up on wanting to use the template in the output, then I wondered if my 'problems' were caused by having the \1 in a bowl of HTML soup.

But I found a different solution that has given me what I want, I used an existing #book-row virtual column whose template is {id} as the search field.

But now at least, I know how template searches are meant to be used.

BR