How to use custom column and tag on calibre-server?

[yourrable]

I have calibre GUI on my Mac and I use that to manage my library. I use custom column and tag browser (Categories with hierarchical items). Once, everything is done, I push it to my Ubuntu VPS where I host my calibre-server.

Unfortunately, I can't see any sorting-searching related to custom columns and tags. I did try running GUI on my Ubuntu but it is very inefficient as my VPS has only 1GB RAM.

What can I do?

Thank you.

[kovidgoyal]

You click the magnifier icon to get to the search page, where you can access all the custom colunms/tags/whatever. Similarly you click the sorting icon to choose which column to sort on.

[yourrable]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You click the magnifier icon to get to the search page, where you can access all the custom colunms/tags/whatever. Similarly you click the sorting icon to choose which column to sort on.

Thank you so much!

But after a little bit of searching and going through the docs, I found solution.

Since, I have configured relevant columns and tags on my Mac, I didn't have to modify library further into my Ubuntu VPS. All I did is run the following command,

```
calibredb add_custom_column --is-multiple genre Genre text --with-library=“/home/calibre/fiction”
```

And it was good to go. (--with-library syntax may be incorrect here, but it worked in my case)

See this article: here, for more info on why I need custom column and tags.