Touch Sort by Series

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Ech1965

I do not have my calibre library at hand, but the device the device collection list looks like this:
...
Clive Cussler - ( contains books without serie info)
Clive Cussler - Dirt Pitt
Clice Cussler - NUMA Files
...

If those are the names of the collections, the order series shelf function will only list the shelves if those names are also used for the series name. But, I suspect the series names for the books is "Dirt Pitt" and "NUMA Files". Hence, the function won't see the above as series shelves.

I indeed used the "date added sort" feature ( before modifying the collection naming)

Now I understand that the firmware 3.3 is the culprit, not my changes in naming the collections...

Thanks a lot for you input, I'll modify the plugboard and change the book titles to add the serie number in the book tittle....

Unfortunately, that is the only thing we can do at the moment. I just wish Kobo would implement proper series sorting.

[Ech1965]

Originally Posted by davidfor

If those are the names of the collections, the order series shelf function will only list the shelves if those names are also used for the series name. But, I suspect the series names for the books is "Dirt Pitt" and "NUMA Files". Hence, the function won't see the above as series shelves.

That's what I suspected...
There is no "sharing" of info between the plugins:
- the info used by the extended driver to derive the collection name from the book metadata ( in my case my computed column)
- the info used by the kobo utilities plugin to detect if serie sorting must be activated...

[davidfor]

Your right, there isn't that much sharing of options between the driver and the utilities plugin. Beyond decisions such as making sure what is done matches that for the device and firmware version. The utilities plugin uses the data in the calibre library and the database on the device for most of the decisions.

The order series shelves function of the utilities plugin has a very specific function. And it is simplistic. It looks for shelves that match the series name. It only uses the device database. If the shelf names are anything else, they don't match and they don't get into the list.

Using what is in the collections field of the driver configuration is an interesting idea. But, how do you know which shelves are for series? The field can have more than one column name. And if a custom column is used, it could be a template. Matching that back to a series is probably impossible.