Changed behaviour in 3.0

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

It looks like you are sorting by author (First Last) and then when you change the author name it puts it in proper alphabetic order with a "Z" at the end. If you are saying that you want the "Z" name to stay right where you are looking in the list then you would need to turn off the sort function...but I'm not sure you can. Best case would be to sort on something other than the author name...then changing the author's name won't change the sort order.

If that makes sense...

I have no expectations of how it works. Because the Tag browser can only be used with the mouse I make very little use of it. If I want to change anything I do it in the book list.

In an effort to help reconcile the differences between what the OP and Kovid say they are seeing, I added some pictorial evidence of what I see when I change an Author name in the Tag Browser.

And to point out that if one peruses the Manage <whatever> list looking for apparent anomalies, as someone suggested, there is no easy way to see which books are categorised by a given value. Using a server task to browse the same library is hardly 'easy', especially if it's not already running.

When I was setting up my library, I identified anomalies by perusing <category> CSVs that I obtained from the database, I corrected them in the book list via F2 cell editing.

BR

[Trevor68]

Well I can take more screenshots again I guess, but they will look EXACTLY like the first two so sorry to inform but this is NOT fixed.
I have checked around 10,000 books using 2.0 without any issues, since using 3.0 the list ALWAYS jumps to top.

If there is no intention to fix it then is there a way to revert to 2.0? As I still have another 20,000 books to check yet, and 3.0 (now 3.1) is making it impossible.

[kovidgoyal]

@BR: That is exactly how calibre 2.x also behaves. To be precise what remains centered is the item at the same position as the renamed item, not the renamed item itself. This was what was changed in 3.0 and changed back in 3.1.

@Trevor: You want to downgrade, feel free to do so, all old calibre releases are linked to on the download page. Although I dont see how it will help you, since 2.x and 3.1 behave in exactly the same way, when renaming items in the Tag browser.

[Trevor68]

Ok, here are the screenshots of it still happening

[Trevor68]

Ok, this behaviour NEVER happened until I upgraded to 3.0, so how can you say it's the same???

[Trevor68]

Sorry re-reading your post more carefully, it would appear that mine has NOT been reverted to 2.0 behaviour by updating to 3.1 :-(

[kovidgoyal]

Ah you are using edit metadata to change the author name, instead just right click on the author and rename it right there. Then you will see the same behavior as in 2.x

[kovidgoyal]

And this change will restore the 2.x behavior for using the edit metadata dialog as well: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...0e30e6aad8e81e

[Trevor68]

Awesome work as always, thank you for your understanding :-)

I'm using metadata sources to correctly identify all terms, not just authors as the library is quite a mess.

patch this friday?

[rwmcafee]

I hope this helps explain them better.

While using the tag browser I'm having problems with the focus of the location on the tag browser when changing authors names or deleting their books.

When I make any changes of an author's name that has 1 or more books, such as, when I swap an author's LN FN to FN LN (using Quality Check) on all their books or delete all of an author's books (1 or many) using any version of Calibre 3 so far; the focus jumps to the top of the authors list.

NOTE: While typing this, I'm doing more testing to make the attached pictures. I'm finding that if the name in the list no longer appears as it was (i.e. LN FN to FN LN) the focus jumps to the top of the list. This happens even if the changed books of the author combines with other books of the same author in the list.

When doing any of these actions in version 2.85.1 or earlier, I don't have these problems. The focus centers on the list at the location of the author being changed or where the author was if deleting all of their books.

Now, all of these changes are being done inside of the booklist area. I change the author's name by clicking on the author(s) area of the booklist or highlighting the book(s) if using the QC button. Also, I remove all books of an author that I'm getting rid of by using CTRL A in the booklist and then using the Remove books button.

Also, I'm using the 64bit version on Windows 7.

Description of the attached pictures:

These pictures are showing changes from version 2.85.1:


Pic01 shows a LN FN that will be changed to FN LN in the list.
Pic02 shows the results of using the Quality Check button. The changed name merges with the other book and the focus stays near the middle.
Pic03 shows the author that I will remove.
Pic04 shows that the removed authors place is now centered in the list.

These pictures are showing changes from version 3.2.1:



Pic05 shows a LN FN that will be changed to FN LN in the list.
Pic06 shows the results of using the Quality Check button. The focus has jumped to the top of the Author tag list.
Pic07 shows the changed author correctly but I had to scroll down to the location.
Pic08 shows the author that I will remove.
Pic09 shows that the focus has jumped to the top of the Author tag list.

[kovidgoyal]

The QC plugin will need to be modified to handle this. Basically, instead of calling tags_view.recount() it has to call tags_view.recount_with_position_based_index()

You should post in that plugins thread.

[rwmcafee]

Thanks for the response Kovid. But, the problems still happen without using the QC plugin. I can change a name in the booklist area (i.e. change Heinlien to Heinlein) and have the list jump to the top.

Note: this will remove the misspelled name from the list. I think that this might be the problem overall.

Also note: I have never used a right click on the author tag browser list to change a name. Mainly, I never thought of doing that.

Thanks BR for the better formatting of my previous post. This is the first time I used pictures.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by rwmcafee

Thanks BR for the better formatting of my previous post. This is the first time I used pictures.

No problems - you can post the images in-line by putting the text cursor where you want to insert an image, and then select the image from the paper clip drop down list.

I'll ask the same question of you as I asked of the OP.

How are finding mis-identified books, by looking at the book list or at the tag browser?

If it's the book list, when you spot book with author 'William Shakespeer' and you know it should be 'William Shakespeare', hit F2 on the author cell for that book and change it right there, the change will be applied to all books with author 'William Shakespeer'. Then you won't even need to look at the Tag Browser or use the metadata editor dialogue.

I don't use QC to correct sort names so I can't speak to it

BR

[rwmcafee]

I use the tag browser. I download lots of free books from Amazon and B&N and purchased books from Humble Bundle, StoryBundle, Arc Manor, etc. I then use the tag browser to go alphabetically through the books. I do it this way so I can easily keep track of where I'm at in the list for when I add more books. It may be convoluted but it's a system that I've used for years.

[kovidgoyal]

Just change the name directly in the Tag browser. Then it wont jump around and will be faster for you as well, since you are not switching between the Tag browser and some other place.