I love using column colours on a ratings column

[ownedbycats]

I just found out I can do this. I love the way it looks.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I just found out I can do this. I love the way it looks.

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So, you color a column based on value? Or is is something special for ratings? I like it.

[Karellen]

I didn't know you could do half star ratings in Calibre.

My drop down box only allows me to select 1-5 stars. How do you get half star ratings?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

So, you color a column based on value? Or is is something special for ratings? I like it.

Ratings is just a fancy-looking integer column. Here's how I did it:

program:

	r = $#ratings;

	if r >=#4 then '#00ff00' 
	elif r >=#2 then '#ffff7f'
	elif r >=#0 then '#ffaa00'

	fi

Originally Posted by Karellen

I didn't know you could do half star ratings in Calibre.

My drop down box only allows me to select 1-5 stars. How do you get half star ratings?

You need to use a custom ratings column instead of the default one. I switched because a 10-point scale is a bit more useful to me.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Ratings is just a fancy-looking integer column. Here's how I did it:

program:

	r = $#ratings;

	if r >=#4 then '#00ff00' 
	elif r >=#2 then '#ffff7f'
	elif r >=#0 then '#ffaa00'

	fi

You need to use a custom ratings column instead of the default one. I switched because a 10-point scale is a bit more useful to me.

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Thank you!

[Karellen]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

You need to use a custom ratings column instead of the default one. I switched because a 10-point scale is a bit more useful to me.

Ok, thanks

[Penny_Dreadful]

Thanks I love this idea 💚

[un_pogaz]

So, that's cool, but the only thing that interests me here is :
How did you get this unified interface for metadata? NEED!

Oh my god, I can feel you creating your own build calibre for this. Dammit.
An option for that would be cool. Much better, a minimum configuration for the position of the groups would be so powerful (but so much to pull out your hair)

[chaley]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

So, that's cool, but the only thing that interests me here is :
How did you get this unified interface for metadata? NEED!

Oh my god, I can feel you creating your own build calibre for this. Dammit.
An option for that would be cool. Much better, a minimum configuration for the position of the groups would be so powerful (but so much to pull out your hair)

Do you mean the metadata edit dialog shown in post #4? Preferences / Behavior / Edit metadata (single) layout: All on 1 tab.

Also see the tweaks:

• Order of custom column(s) in edit metadata (ID: metadata_edit_custom_column_order)
• Edit metadata custom column label width and elision point (ID: metadata_edit_elide_labels)

[un_pogaz]

Thanks.
In "Behavior"? I would have said "Look & Feel", strange choice.

Arf, the cover on the right I would not get used to it... and you can't grab the groups of metadata to change their size, like with the Default.
Not sure of using it and some improvement to suggest (to Kovid), but I keep this option.

[dunhill]

I couldn't get it to work for me
Can you give me screenshots?

[ownedbycats]

If you mean my template, did you change line 3 '$#ratings' to '$rating'? I use a custom column.

[Penny_Dreadful]

Originally Posted by dunhill

I couldn't get it to work for me
Can you give me screenshots?

I edited the code a bit so I could use the default rating column and change the colour for each number of stars.

program: 

     r = $rating;
 

     if r >=#5 then '#2EAB64'
     elif r >=#4 then '#94E4C9'
     elif r >=#3 then '#FE657D'    
     elif r >=#2 then '#FCB2A9'
     elif r >=#1 then '#FEDC78'
 

     fi

Go to Settings> Look and Feel> Column Colouring> Add Advanced Rule (it's a button at the bottom left of the dialogue box)


Change "Set the colour of the column" to the ratings column and paste the code into the template box and you should be good to go.

Ans so much thanks to ownedbycats your idea is genius! I love ideas to make calibre prettier.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Penny_Dreadful

I edited the code a bit so I could use the default rating column and change the colour for each number of stars.

program: 

     r = $rating;
 

     if r >=#5 then '#2EAB64'
     elif r >=#4 then '#94E4C9'
     elif r >=#3 then '#FE657D'    
     elif r >=#2 then '#FCB2A9'
     elif r >=#1 then '#FEDC78'
 

     fi

FWIW: this template will have better performance because the sequence of comparisons is done in python instead of the template interpreter.

program:
	first_matching_cmp(
		$rating,
		1.1, '#FEDC78',
		2.1, '#94E4C9',
		3.1, '#FE657D',
		4.1, '#94E4C9',
			 '#2EAB64')

I used 1.1 instead of 1 etc. because the comparisons are 'less than'. I should have made it <= when I added first_matching_cmp() to the template language. Oh well, too late now.

[ownedbycats]

Would it break existing things to change it to <= instead of <?