[GUI Plugin] Action Chains

[ownedbycats]

Question: Would it be feasible to have an option to be able to copy and move actions between different chains?

[capink]

No. It is not worth the effort and will end up being up ugly both in UI and code.

[ownedbycats]

A quick question that I forgot the answer for: Do conditionals check each book separately and run selectively on those, or does it just fail if any of the books don't match? If relevant, it's checking the value of a column.

[capink]

They work on the currently selected book (The active row). If you want to check the value for all selected books, you can use the from_selection() function. For more on this, refer to the formulas action documentation.

[The Holy]

Hello, I have a few questions.

I'm setting up an action chain for simplified import, but there are a few actions I need in the chain which I can't find an option for.

Firstly, is there an action to create a delay between steps? For example 3 seconds.

Secondly, I need an action after some jobs to automatically accept a finished job before it moves on to the next action. Currently, the chain goes straight from finishing the extract ISBN job to metadata search without me having time to accept the new ISBN:s that have been found. So an action in between extract ISBN and metadata search to automatically accept the found ISBN values.

Or, in general, an action that automatically clicks through/accepts jobs before moving on to the next action. I guess this would be required when I make a chain for automatic import from a folder, anyone who has done that?

Lastly, are there any good general chains people tend to use that most probably would find useful? Like actions that can be run on everything for general clean-up or whatever?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by The Holy

Secondly, I need an action after some jobs to automatically accept a finished job before it moves on to the next action. Currently, the chain goes straight from finishing the extract ISBN job to metadata search without me having time to accept the new ISBN:s that have been found. So an action in between extract ISBN and metadata search to automatically accept the found ISBN values.

This was discussed a few pages ago. tl;dr: Action Chains doesn't have any good way of detecting self.gui.proceed_question(), which is what those plugins use to confirm.

kiwidude's plugins (Count Pages and Extract ISBN) have options to automatically fill without confirmation. There's still the small risk that the next action will fire off in the split-second between the job finishing and the db write actually occuring, but it may help.

[The Holy]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

This was discussed a few pages ago. tl;dr: Action Chains doesn't have any good way of detecting self.gui.proceed_question(), which is what those plugins use to confirm.

kiwidude's plugins (Count Pages and Extract ISBN) have options to automatically fill without confirmation. There's still the small risk that the next action will fire off in the split-second between the job finishing and the db write actually occuring, but it may help.

Oh that's unfortunate. Is there at least some way to add a delay action in that case?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by The Holy

Lastly, are there any good general chains people tend to use that most probably would find useful? Like actions that can be run on everything for general clean-up or whatever?

My main Fiction cleanup chain:

1. Sets #percentread to 0.
2. Runs the Comments Cleaner plugin. (There's two plugins for this; you may prefer this one.)
3. Runs Extract ISBN.
4. Runs Count Pages.
5. Removes the [Cleanup] tag.

Instead of sending books directly to device, I have a 'Send to Device' chain that also populates a few device-specific custom columns and then adds it to a custom reading list that syncs to device upon connect.

[Wiggo]

Since the latest update I get these errors on my identifier-clean up action chain

calibre, version 6.10.0
FEHLER: Unbehandleter Fehler: Failed to read book data from calibre library. Click "Show details" for more information

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 624, in current_changed
  File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 606, in get_book_display_info
  File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 693, in get_metadata
  File "calibre\db\view.py", line 226, in index_to_id
IndexError: tuple index out of range

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 624, in current_changed
  File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 606, in get_book_display_info
  File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 693, in get_metadata
  File "calibre\db\view.py", line 226, in index_to_id
IndexError: tuple index out of range

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Since the latest update I get these errors on my identifier-clean up action chain

calibre, version 6.10.0
FEHLER: Unbehandleter Fehler: Failed to read book data from calibre library. Click "Show details" for more information

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 624, in current_changed
  File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 606, in get_book_display_info
  File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 693, in get_metadata
  File "calibre\db\view.py", line 226, in index_to_id
IndexError: tuple index out of range

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 624, in current_changed
  File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 606, in get_book_display_info
  File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 693, in get_metadata
  File "calibre\db\view.py", line 226, in index_to_id
IndexError: tuple index out of range

This is a regression in calibre 6.10. Revert calibre to 6.9, run calibre from source, or live with the messages until the next release of calibre.

[Wiggo]

I will live with it - thank you.

[ownedbycats]

When adding a new icon, 'from web domain favicon' with www.kobo.com fails.

calibre, version 6.10.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>NameError</b>:name 'urlretrieve' is not defined

calibre 6.10*  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.10.1
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeACSM (0, 0, 16) && DeDRM (10, 0, 2) && Action Chains (1, 18, 1) && Baen (1, 1, 0) && Barnes & Noble (1, 4, 0) && Comments Cleaner (1, 8, 0) && Count Pages (1, 12, 0) && Embed Comic Metadata (1, 6, 4) && EpubCheck (0, 2, 4) && EpubMerge (2, 15, 0) && EpubSplit (3, 5, 0) && Extract ISBN (1, 6, 0) && FanFicFare (4, 18, 0) && Fantastic Fiction (1, 6, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 3, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 7) && Generate Cover (2, 3, 0) && GetFileName (0, 2, 0) && Goodreads (1, 7, 1) && Import List (1, 9, 0) && Job Spy (1, 0, 197) && Kindle hi-res covers (0, 5, 0) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 83, 1) && Kobo Books (1, 9, 2) && Kobo Utilities (2, 16, 6) && KoboTouchExtended (3, 6, 3) && Last Modified (0, 8, 4) && Manage Series (1, 5, 0) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 1) && MultiColumnSearch (1, 0, 95) && Obok DeDRM (7, 2, 1) && Open With (1, 8, 0) && Overdrive Link (2, 53, 0) && Quality Check (1, 13, 3) && Reading List (1, 14, 0) && Search The Internet (1, 10, 0) && SmartEject (2, 5, 0) && Standard Ebooks (1, 0, 0) && Sum Column (0, 3, 1) && View Manager (1, 10, 2) && Walk Search History (1, 5, 3) && Overdrive Link Metadata Source (2, 53, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.action_chains.gui.__init__", line 367, in ok_clicked
NameError: name 'urlretrieve' is not defined

[capink]

Fixed for the next release.

[capink]

Version 1.18.2

• Fix: Bug in icon download.

Version 1.18.1

• Update: Add "Convert Books" Actions.
• Fix: Bug in Chain Caller validation.

[ownedbycats]

I've noticed there's a slight delay when running a single-action MDE chain (remove '[Cleanup]' from tags) that isn't present when editing directly.

I suspect this may have something to do with the recursion checks. While not a big issue, is this something easily fixable?