How to visually report a field in Book Viewer

[pg111]

Hi everybody,

Further BetterRed's excellent suggestion a few weeks ago, I started to use Evernotes to manage author info. So I now have a number of links to EN records in the Manage author table.

My today's question is: Is there any way to visually mark in Book viewer any Author field that has an EN link? For instance marking it with a star or changing its color.

Any idea thankfully welcome in advance.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by pg111

Hi everybody,

Further BetterRed's excellent suggestion a few weeks ago, I started to use Evernotes to manage author info. So I now have a number of links to EN records in the Manage author table.

My today's question is: Is there any way to visually mark in Book viewer any Author field that has an EN link? For instance marking it with a star or changing its color.

Any idea thankfully welcome in advance.

A book's Author Link values can be obtained via the author_links template function (see Get values from metadata). You could use that in a Column Colour or Column Icon rule to set a colour or icon if an EN link exists. **

However, you wrote "visually mark in Book viewer". If that is what you really mean, then you might be able to use the author_links function to create a custom composite column that could be injected into a book jacket - although I'm not entirely sure that such columns can injected into a jacket.

Added : ** if you devise such a rule perhaps you could post it

BR

[pg111]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

A book's Author Link values can be obtained via the author_links template function (see Get values from metadata). You could use that in a Column Colour or Column Icon rule to set a colour or icon if an EN link exists.

However, you wrote "visually mark in Book viewer". If that what you really meant then you might be able to use the author_links function to create a custom composite column that could be injected into a book jacket - I'm not sure that such columns can injected into a jacket.

BR

Thanks, BR, as usual. Changing colour would be enough if I can get this result. I guess I can use it for other fields as well.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by pg111

Thanks, BR, as usual. Changing colour would be enough if I can get this result. I guess I can use it for other fields as well.

See my Added in previous post.

I prefer using icons to colours, its easier to remember what they mean, e.g. for your particular case you could use something like this

If you have multiple indicative icons such as your Author Links example, you can attach them to a single a placeholder integer column using a composed icon with no text.

BR

[pg111]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

See my Added in previous post.

I prefer using icons to colours, its easier to remember what they mean, e.g. for your particular case you could use something like this Attachment 167808

If you have multiple indicative icons such as your Author Links example, you can attach them to a single a placeholder integer column using a composed icon with no text.

BR

Dear BR,

Thanks for the advice but I'm afraid I'm lost and need some guidance.

Plse refer to the attached screenshot.

What I would like to get is to draw attention to the field marked by the red arrow either by displaying it with an icon (as per your suggestion) or by displaying it in a different color.

How could I get this result? Many thanks in advance.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by pg111

Dear BR,

Thanks for the advice but I'm afraid I'm lost and need some guidance.

Plse refer to the attached screenshot.

What I would like to get is to draw attention to the field marked by the red arrow either by displaying it with an icon (as per your suggestion) or by displaying it in a different color.

How could I get this result? Many thanks in advance.

I think the issue is everything (except cover) on that page is TEXT.
While some character sets do include a 'tick mark', the worm can opens if the user changes system fonts to one that does not have that glyph. Calibre is robust by avoidin worm holes

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by pg111

Dear BR,

Thanks for the advice but I'm afraid I'm lost and need some guidance.

Plse refer to the attached screenshot.

What I would like to get is to draw attention to the field marked by the red arrow either by displaying it with an icon (as per your suggestion) or by displaying it in a different color.

How could I get this result? Many thanks in advance.

You can't alter the manner in which columns are displayed in the Book Details panel

BR

[pg111]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

You can't alter the manner in which columns are displayed in the Book Details panel

BR

Thanks BR. I guess it is the same for Author's name? I would like to indicate this field has info linked to it. Any idea to work the problem out? Many thanks in advance.

[BetterRed]

Maybe Kovid could use a colour other than Blue (e.g. Green) if an author has an Evernote URI in the authors.link database column.

If I paste a Note Link from Evernote into a Custom Long Text Column it shows in Green viz:



I'm not 100% sure if the markup in the HTML is generated by calibre or if it comes via the clipboard - all I know is that I certainly don't put it there:

<div>
<a href="https://www.evernote.com/shard/s105/nl/12032092/53365fed-4bc7-4b19-b5ce-118cc9e56acf" style="color:#69aa35"><b>The Ambassador in China (Hurley) to the Secretary of State | Teaching American History</b></a>
</div>

But I suspect its done by calibre, because if I paste the same link into a .html file all I get is the https://evernote . . . URI. As you can see it also gets the Note Title - pretty good stuff.

BR

[pg111]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Maybe Kovid could use a colour other than Blue (e.g. Green) if an author has an Evernote URI in the authors.link database column.

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BR

BR, do you mean that only a software-level change by Kovid could give the requested change? So we should ask for it as a wishlist item?

[kovidgoyal]

I'm afraid changing the link color based on the contents of the link is not going to happen, but you can easily (well not exactly easily) accomplish this by creating a column based on other columns that contains HTML and write a template for it that generates the needed colored HTML based ont he value of the authors_link.

[pg111]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I'm afraid changing the link color based on the contents of the link is not going to happen, but you can easily (well not exactly easily) accomplish this by creating a column based on other columns that contains HTML and write a template for it that generates the needed colored HTML based ont he value of the authors_link.

Thanks, Kovid. Looks like it is beyond my current knowledge of your wonderful software. Could some charitable soul explain how I can create such a column? Many thanks in advance.