Content Server Multiple Libraries with different views?

[mclien]

I think, I have to give all clients/users need write access for some reasons.
-any user can log in at any client
-any user should be able to set tags and so on

I also wonder if every user can have an own preferences file. If so the data base can have many collums (e.g. a read/unread for every user) but wich one is showed depends on the logged in user.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by mclien

I also wonder if every user can have an own preferences file. If so the data base can have many collums (e.g. a read/unread for every user) but wich one is showed depends on the logged in user.

I think you can set the preferences directory via environment variable- there should be a calibre-portable.bat somewhere in the install directory, I believe. Note that custom columns, as well as some other preferences, are saved per library and not per user.

[mclien]

Originally Posted by Manichean

Note that custom columns, as well as some other preferences, are saved per library and not per user.

I know. The idea was to have somewhat too "many columns", e.g. a rating column for each user, which of course is stored in the library. and then use diffrent perferences of each user which show/hide different of these columns on per user basis.

[mclien]

Did some tests:
There is a .config/calibre dir in every users home, which unfortunaltelly doesn't influences any of te things I need :-(

So I did some backup an restore with the metadata.db (in the Library path) and figured out that even the information which column is shown/hide is stored in the metadata.db and not in the users path, which is (from my point of view) unnessessary. The existance of the columns, of course have to be inside the db, but the part what of these culomns is show could perhaps be part of the giu interface.
But due to my very limited understanding of SQL, I may be wrong.