Virtual Column Issue

[chaley]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

BTW the glitch with Sort By->Sort on multiple columns in Favourites getting greyed keeps coming back, so I removed it. It must be something in Sort By because my other cherry picked Favourites are fine.

The Sort By menu is built from nothing every time it is invoked to avoid computing changes to the menu. This might be the difference?

[ownedbycats]

@BetterRed - I had similar issues when trying to use the Calibre sort option in Action Chains. Sometimes it would randomly fail due to the menu being re-built.

Depending on your usecase, if you use Action Chains you may want to try with multisort custom module. This can be added to the Favourites menu without the invalidation issue.

Note that the columns are selected in advance.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

@BetterRed - I had similar issues when trying to use the Calibre sort option in Action Chains. Sometimes it would randomly fail due to the menu being re-built.

Depending on your usecase, if you use Action Chains you may want to try with multisort custom module. This can be added to the Favourites menu without the invalidation issue.

Note that the columns are selected in advance.

The reason I wanted the Multi-column option in Favorites was to avoid inadvertently selecting the first item: reverse the current primary key.

Pretty sure it goes awry when I switch libraries via calibre://show-book links to 'books' in other libraries. My attraction to Sort By was its potential to replace my usage of View Manager. Not that's there's anything wrong with VM, but… less is better, least is best - I should put that in my sig.

BR

[chaley]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Pretty sure it goes awry when I switch libraries via calibre://show-book links to 'books' in other libraries.

This gave me the hint I needed to find why the menus "go awry". I have pushed a fix that works for me.

Favourites seems to be user-specific, so the library-specific sorts grey when they don't exist in the current library. They "un-grey" if you change libraries and the name exists in the new library. If the same name exists in multiple libraries then the name doesn't grey but the sort spec follows the library.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by chaley

This gave me the hint I needed to find why the menus "go awry". I have pushed a fix that works for me.

Favourites seems to be user-specific, so the library-specific sorts grey when they don't exist in the current library. They "un-grey" if you change libraries and the name exists in the new library. If the same name exists in multiple libraries then the name doesn't grey but the sort spec follows the library.

FWIW - I can cherry pick favourites from Manage Categories which can be a variable list, above some threshold (probably 5) it relegates custom columns to a separate flyout.

I found a way to declutter the Sort By menu, deselect all the columns:



But then I saw this



Afterthought: perhaps the Sort by multiple columns dialogue could have a Show deselected columns checkbox.

BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Afterthought: perhaps the Sort by multiple columns dialogue could have a Show deselected columns checkbox.

And following on from that, Preferences->Look & Feel could have a Book List section similar to Book Details (i.e. a list of columns with checkboxes and ordering) with a Save option similar to Sort by, with the Load option in the Header context menu.

BR

[ownedbycats]

Are you thinking of something like View Manager, but built-in and only for a single profile?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Are you thinking of something like View Manager, but built-in and only for a single profile?

What's a profile - single or otherwise, perhaps something to do with a dating app

Two separate tools; one to specify which columns to sort on, the other to specify which columns to list and their juxtapositions. For me they would replace View Manager, but I don't use its split screen, saved search, and virtual library features.

BR