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To see the 'Create new View' option JimmXinu just added, you'll need to restart calibre (Ctrl+R) after installing the new version.
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10-25-2016, 08:53 PM | #138 |
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@JimmXinu - was just a heads up to remind people. Pity PI updates don't prompt for a restart like PI adds. I thought some did - but its a long time since I last updated an existing PI. so I might be misremembering.
My starting point was to set the current view to the one with the Sort Order closest to what I wanted. I then adjusted a couple of columns via the list headers, then did the 'Create new View'. When I went into configure I expected to see the Sort Order already set, my intent was to reverse the order on a date column. I ended up having to grab a screenshot of my starting View, and enter it from scratch. I was rather hoping the Sort Order on a 'Create new View' would clone the current View's configured Sort Order. Any chance of doing that, or providing a "Copy current configured sort order" check box on the new name dialogue? For me at least, the Sort Order list has always been 'harder' to get right than the Columns in View list. BR |
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View == View Manager 'View'. view == current display. If you want to copy an existing View, go into VM config, select the View, click the Add button and it will copy all the View settings. It might be worth the effort to update/create with sort settings from the current column sorts, but taking columns from current display and sort from last used View (ignoring changes since then) is, IMHO, a Bad Idea. |
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In my head: "So, what I want is this View, but with this column over here, this one wider, this additional column, but I don't need these two, now let's save that as a new View. WTF, where did the sort order go!" Creating a new view as you proscribe (from within the configuration dialogue) isn't conducive to ad-hoc view creation, which is what I was hoping for. I often create project specific Views, once the project is finished (typically a few weeks) I remove them. Doing it from within the context of the book list had a lot of appeal. That said I am very grateful for your efforts in enhancing Kiwidude's PIs. BR |
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Here's a test version that saves columns, widths and sorts, plus adds a menu option for creating a new view.
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Feedback, both whether it works or not, is appreciated. Saving searches is still left out because that would require re-doing the config dialog, too. (FYI, there's some debug output left in this version that will need to be removed before release.) Last edited by JimmXinu; 10-29-2016 at 11:35 AM. Reason: Remove obsolete test versions - replaced by newer test or released version. |
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A trivial inconsistency, the toolbar icon doesn't show a drop down arrow, whereas tools such as Resize Cover and Find Duplicates do show one. I'll report back asap - maybe later today, COB on Friday at latest. BR |
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Which does remind me that I need to look at what these changes do in the face of devices and the ondevice column. |
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That's too subtle for me
I use the book list context menu almost exclusively, apart from Generate Cover everything I have there has a flyout arrow - one might argue GC should have an ellipsis. . . Don't attach devices or use Connect/Share. I prefer to manage device content generically rather than application by application. BR |
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FYI, the ondevice column is always present internally--even when no device is attached and it isn't shown. And when shown, it cannot be hidden. So no special handling is required.
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(Changing the VM View in VM Config doesn't effect the current display until you apply it again, regardless of what the VM checkboxes show.) |
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Try this simple test -
Create a view 'Published' with following sort specs Make 'Published' the current view, and do some column adjustments -add, remove, move, etc. Select VM->Create new and call it 'Set Location' Now go into VM->Customise plugin, our objective is to adjust the sort sequence of Set Location so that Publisher ascending is topmost rather than Published descending. When I select the just created Set Location View this is what I see I suspect my usage patterns don't meet with your expectations of how and why the new features might be used. I enter all individual 'book' metadata via the book list. That is the main reason I create new views, by arranging the columns in the sequence that is optimal for the source - which are not commercial book publishers. Often as not I want to retain the current sort sequence. BR |
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I did that and it behaved exactly as I expected--which isn't what you are apparently seeing.
The only reason I can think of why you are seeing that behavior is if you aren't using the most recent test version. It should be the same as the last one, but just in case, I've posted the version I'm using here. Last edited by JimmXinu; 05-12-2018 at 10:49 PM. Reason: Remove obsolete test versions |
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