Library Management: various questions not worth their own thread

[Wiggo]

Thank you so much again, @obc!

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Increment #timesread:

program: $$#timesread + 1

Add dates to #readdates:

program:
	list_union(strcat(format_date($$#lastread, 'MMM d yyyy')), $#readdates, ',')

The other SFEs are either predefined or ask-on-runtime.

I only took what I need, incrementing #read_count and adding #readdates, but your "Mark as DNF" entry in Action Chains is still in there in the menu though.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

I only took what I need, incrementing #read_count and adding #readdates, but your "Mark as DNF" entry in Action Chains is still in there in the menu though.

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Attachment 203846

I no longer had this entry, so I redid the chain

[culytera]

Is it possible to partition a category (that is a column built from other columns formatted into a date) in the tag browser by year then by month then by day?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by culytera

Is it possible to partition a category (that is a column built from other columns formatted into a date) in the tag browser by year then by month then by day?

See this post in this thread. This post describes a fast template function to format dates. Be sure to set the column to be hierarchical in Preferences / Look & feel / Tag browser

[culytera]

Originally Posted by chaley

See this post in this thread. This post describes a fast template function to format dates. Be sure to set the column to be hierarchical in Preferences / Look & feel / Tag browser

Thank you! Works exactly like I wanted.

[applegaa]

Is it possible to set different default values for the same custom column in different libraries?

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by applegaa

Is it possible to set different default values for the same custom column in different libraries?

I haven't tested different default values in different libraries neither with built-in Calibre settings nor with Job Spy "Apply default values" feature, but I'd guess this is possible...

[chaley]

Originally Posted by applegaa

Is it possible to set different default values for the same custom column in different libraries?

Yes. Custom column definitions are library-specific, so all the defaults are per-library. Changing a default in one library has no effect on other libraries.

[applegaa]

Originally Posted by chaley

Yes. Custom column definitions are library-specific, so all the defaults are per-library. Changing a default in one library has no effect on other libraries.

Thanks!!!

[Wiggo]

Calibre tweaks

Could someone please help me here. I would like to split the authors also at ";".

 '(?i),?\\s+(and|with|und|mit|•|;)\\s+'

Doesn't work. To be more precise, nothing works in the regex testers

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Calibre tweaks

Could someone please help me here. I would like to split the authors also at ";".

 '(?i),?\\s+(and|with|und|mit|•|;)\\s+'

Doesn't work. To be more precise, nothing works in the regex testers

The problem is that the regex requires a space before and after the split indicator. My guess is that in the metadata there is a space after the semicolon but not before.

Try this:

authors_split_regex = '(?i),?(\\s+(and|with|und|mit|)\\s+|(;|•))'

It still requires spaces before and after the words but doesn't require spaces before or after the semicolon or the •.

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by chaley

The problem is that the regex requires a space before and after the split indicator. My guess is that in the metadata there is a space after the semicolon but not before.

Try this:

authors_split_regex = '(?i),?(\\s+(and|with|und|mit|)\\s+|(;|•))'

It still requires spaces before and after the words but doesn't require spaces before or after the semicolon or the •.

[ownedbycats]

Question: In #admintags, I have several readinggoal:xxxx entries (where xx is the year). How would I search for books that contain at least two of these?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Question: In #admintags, I have several readinggoal:xxxx entries (where xx is the year). How would I search for books that contain at least two of these?

Isn't this a template question?

Examples:

program:
	list_count(list_re($#mytextmult, ',', 'aaa:', ''), ',') > 1

python:
def evaluate(book, context):
	lst = list(i for i in book.get('#mytextmult', '') if i.startswith('aaa:'))
	return '1' if len(lst) > 1 else ''