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Old 09-25-2013, 02:43 PM   #76
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Kiwidude,

One follow-up:

On running an author (I just did Nora Roberts for my wife), on the Predefined Fantastic Fiction, I got 397 lines after hitting Preview... but the Next button never highlighted.
I notice that there are a bunch of blank Lines too, with the only data being the author, Nora Roberts.

Same problem with David Eddings: Used FF, got 43 lines with 7 blank line here and there, and no Next button highlighted

any ideas why it came to a halt? Or what I can do?

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Old 09-25-2013, 03:24 PM   #77
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Kiwidude,

One follow-up:

On running an author (I just did Nora Roberts for my wife), on the Predefined Fantastic Fiction, I got 397 lines after hitting Preview... but the Next button never highlighted.
I notice that there are a bunch of blank Lines too, with the only data being the author, Nora Roberts.

Same problem with David Eddings: Used FF, got 43 lines with 7 blank line here and there, and no Next button highlighted

any ideas why it came to a halt? Or what I can do?
I see this also.

I delete the 'blank(ish)' lines, then it seems to be a 'Go'
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Old 09-25-2013, 04:06 PM   #78
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I see this also.

I delete the 'blank(ish)' lines, then it seems to be a 'Go'
Wow!!! First of all I didn't know you could delete lines until you mentioned it! So now I found the right click to Remove Book! Thank you!!!!
That may solve some of the other failures I had.

Soooo, I guess the question if whether the xpath or something else can be changed to automatically remove blank lines...???

Sure would be nice
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Old 09-25-2013, 07:07 PM   #79
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This plugin hasnt had much attention for a long time, and a number of the websites have changed. I have been updating the xpaths and urls and will also be revisiting a number of the unanswered posts on this thread to see if any other suggestions are worth the effort to include. It could be that the FantasticFiction one needs some tweaking, I will try to replicate the issue when I next get a chance to work on it...
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Old 09-28-2013, 07:03 AM   #80
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Kiwidude,

One follow-up:

On running an author (I just did Nora Roberts for my wife), on the Predefined Fantastic Fiction, I got 397 lines after hitting Preview... but the Next button never highlighted.
I notice that there are a bunch of blank Lines too, with the only data being the author, Nora Roberts.

Same problem with David Eddings: Used FF, got 43 lines with 7 blank line here and there, and no Next button highlighted

any ideas why it came to a halt? Or what I can do?
Just had a brief look at this. Sure enough it is the xpath for the website page that is the problem. Specifically where it tries to get the series index value. If you blank out the Series Index xpath (erase the "text()") you will see all those "blank" lines disappear. Unfortunately of course that also means every book gets its series index set to zero.

Currently I have validation logic in the wizard which says if the title for a book is blank, then don't let you proceed. That is why the Next button is grayed out, and as theducks pointed out, a workaround is to delete those rows with blank titles.

I will have a play to see if I can get another xpath expression which works, though this particular website is a real pain for trying to do this as the html is very poorly structured. Alternatively I could change the wizard so that any lines with blank titles just get ignored rather than stopping you from going to the next page.
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I had the problem of multiple values for "tags" in XPath, and the preview showed additional lines without title, but with author(s) and one tag per line.
Hi wolf23,

Thanks very much for taking the time to investigate a patch etc. Unfortunately that exact approach would break too many other fields (for an example of why you can try with the FantasticFiction website). However if restricted to just the tags field it should be fine, if not quite as flexible. This plugin has so many features/options as it is I am reluctant to try to throw one more in front of users

I will put the change in the new version I will release shortly.
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Old 09-28-2013, 04:13 PM   #82
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v1.1.2 released

Changes in this release:
  • Remove the select next matched/unmatched etc buttons/menus. Replace with Show All/Matched/Unmatched radio buttons that filter.
  • Add a predefined setting for the Goodreads search results page
  • Fix various broken predefined settings from changes to websites being scraped
  • Change logic so that if scraped website book data has no title it is not added to the right-hand side preview books list
  • Always put a horizontal scroll bar on both lists in the Resolve page of wizard to reduce change of vertical scrolling out of sync
  • If multiple values for a tags field from xpath when scraping off the web, separate the values with a comma and store as a single value.
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Old 09-29-2013, 04:19 AM   #83
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Hi wolf23,

Thanks very much for taking the time to investigate a patch etc. Unfortunately that exact approach would break too many other fields (for an example of why you can try with the FantasticFiction website). However if restricted to just the tags field it should be fine, if not quite as flexible. This plugin has so many features/options as it is I am reluctant to try to throw one more in front of users
Hi kiwidude,

Thanks for the enhancement! Great.
Naturally, my approach for all fields is too generic, especially in cases like the FantasticFiction website

And you are right: keep it simple, no unneeded widget elements. The solution not to add books without title to the preview is the best one for all cases.

Thanks again!
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enhancement proposal: multiple values in custom columns

Hi kiwidude,

sometimes I want to add multiple values in custom columns as tag list. I found a solution, see attached diff.

I hope I did it right - just for custom columns AND of type "is_multiple": if "is_names"-column then join with " & ", else join with ", ".

(no interference of FantasticFiction or other predefined settings this time ;-) )
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Great Upgrade!!!

Hi kiwidude,

Fantastic upgrade
And I was just getting used to deleting the blank lines...

Looks good to me! Thanks very much
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v1.1.3 Released

Changes in this release:
  • Submission from wolf23 to support comma separated values for any type of custom column that supports multiple values.
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Great updates! It's fun to use this plugin, it allows me to add all my audiobooks to the collection pain free! Thank you very much!
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When importing dates (like publication date) from a CSV file, one day seems to be subtracted from the date in the file.

This is most obvious if you have a date like "01 Jan 1988", and it is stored as "31 Dec 1987", so Calibre displays it as "Dec 1987".
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When importing dates (like publication date) from a CSV file, one day seems to be subtracted from the date in the file.

This is most obvious if you have a date like "01 Jan 1988", and it is stored as "31 Dec 1987", so Calibre displays it as "Dec 1987".
I think its to do with the fact that Calibre adjusts all dates according to your locale.

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