[GUI Plugin] Action Chains

[justinmiller87]

Originally Posted by capink

If my memory serves me right, the plugin checks if the new value is equal to the old value (and in case of authors column it doesn't take different author order as different), and if they are, it does not apply the value to prevent changing last_modified column, which would in turn trigger changing opf files on disk and slow things unnecessarily.

Chaley has since introduced a change in calibre source that does a similar thing, so when I get time to look at the code I might remove this.

In the mean time, to get around this, the solution is to change the author string by adding an action that adds a "temporary" to the author list, and then sort and remove the temporary string in the next action.

Attached is a chain that does what I describe above.

I appreciate your help. That resolved it.