Composite column in book jacket

[tgiladi]

I used to have a composite column for the author notes, which I created with this code:

program: get_note('authors', $authors, '')

This allowed me to see the author notes in the book details pane, but more importantly, to insert the notes into jacket right below the book comments, by using a modified template:

<div class="cbj_comments">
			{comments}
			{_author_notes}
		</div>

Everything was working well, but unfortunately the PC I was running Calibre on broke down and I had to start over on a new PC (Calibre version 7.22). However, I can't get the author notes to show up in the jacket anymore, although they do still show up in the book details pane. All that I'm getting are the book comments.

Am I doing something wrong, or have I missed some setting?

[theducks]

Put a copy of these files in the same relative place in the config folder
C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\resources\jacket
=> C:\Users\your logon\AppData\Roaming\calibre\resources
Edit to taste

Those survive updates

[tgiladi]

Thanks for replying. I'm aware of that and this is what I'm doing. But even though all my other custom columns appear in the jacket which is created either by polishing or by converting, the composite custom column for author notes is missing.
I'm using the same custom template I was using on my old PC (I had a backup of the template) and the custom column names are all the same as they were.

That's why I'm asking if I've missed something else or maybe Calibre itself somehow changed recently and support for that has been dropped.

[chaley]

I traced this down to the change in calibre offering that custom composite columns not be stored in the backup or book OPF. The jacket processor gets the column value from the OPF. If you uncheck the box "Store this column's value in an OPF" in the custom column definition then the column's content is not passed in that OPF, so they cannot be included in the jacket.

Re-check the box and it should work. It does for me.

[tgiladi]

Many thanks!
Checking the box for "Store this column's value in an OPF" did the trick, everything is working well as it should now.

[tgiladi]

One last ask please:
I thought it would be nice to include the author link into the jacket as well. I created another custom column:

program: get_link('authors', $authors)

And it is working as expected. However, it's not being interpereed as a link, but rather as text.
Is there a way to create a link within the jacket that would use the value of that column? And could the text of that link be the author's name instead of the full URL?

[chaley]

Your template must format the link, assuming it is a URL, as an HTML <a> tag.

<a href="the link">Your text</a>

I suspect that a lot of readers/reading software won't allow following arbitrary links from an ebook.