[GUI Plugin] Job Spy

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

I was thinking more along the lines of something that'll automatically check that a string of text in an ebook matches the metadata for that specific book. Without having to copy it from each book.

That sounds more like a Multi-Column Search plug-in scenario. Upload a .zip of ~10 of your .txt files to your previous post, and I will look at them. No promises, though.



DaltonST

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.81 -2017-10-16 Two New GUI Tools: "Bulk Empty any 'Comments/Long Text' Custom Column of all Values [Selected Books]" and "Bulk Update any 'Comments/Long Text' Custom Column from Clipboard Text [Selected Books]".

See the attached image.



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[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.82 -2017-11-03 New GUI Tool: "RowSpy".

See the attached image for a complete explanation.



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[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.83 -2017-11-17 New GUI Tool: Set Last-Modified Date to Date-Added (Timestamp)


In case you forgot to first back up the last-modified dates so you could restore them after you made changes to any custom column in Preferences > Add your own columns (which unfortunately changes every book's last-modified date), you can at least reset the newly changed last-modified dates to the date that each book was originally added to the library.

See the attached.

n.b. since Calibre automatically updates a book's author-sort whenever any metadata column residing on table "books" is changed, and auto-commits that author-sort change, this takes longer than you would think. In testing, 40,000 books took 5 minutes to be changed instead of just a dozen or so seconds that this GUI Tool would otherwise take.



DaltonST

[BetterRed]

Just noticed a couple of anomalies with the Keyboard shortcut list

1. A bunch of Unknown Unknowns. I can't be sure, but I don't think they were there when this feature was first implemented.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Some duplicates, I could have have missed these previously
   
   
   

I suspect this is not a problem in the JS PI itself, rather a problem in the data.

I'm wondering if you can give any insight as why and what the Unknowns are and why the duplicates exist... and how I might go about 'fixing' them; other than by nuking them entirely.

BR

[DaltonST]

No worries. The listing has to sift the chaff from the wheat, and the rules to do so apparently need some enhancements. My testing never uncovered these scenarios. I'll upload a new version tomorrow.

[BetterRed]

@DaltonST - Thanks much, no hurry.

BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

No worries. The listing has to sift the chaff from the wheat, and the rules to do so apparently need some enhancements. My testing never uncovered these scenarios. I'll upload a new version tomorrow.

@DaltonST - some (maybe all ?) of the Unknown Unknowns are changes I've made, see attachments for examples.

I'm also attaching a zip of my %CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY%\shortcuts\main.json. Thought it might help.

BR

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@DaltonST - some (maybe all ?) of the Unknown Unknowns are changes I've made, see attachments for examples.

I'm also attaching a zip of my %CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY%\shortcuts\main.json. Thought it might help.

BR

Thanks for your attachments, especially main.json. That is priceless test data, and I am using that instead of my original main.json.

I have fixed the majority of the issues for the next version, but since my installed plug-ins are different from yours, I suspect that some of my issues are a result of my using your main.json without the corresponding plug-in shortcuts having being created during their initialization upon startup.

Example: Shift+B

It appears in my listing, but with a name that is just the UUID (unique name) of that "action". In my Preferences > Shortcuts, which of course is influenced by your main.json, I have no Shift+B to be found anywhere.

I will attach to this post a test version 1.0.99 of Job Spy for you to run to test whether your Shift+B shows up properly in the JS+ GUI Tool Shortcut listing.

Regardless, I will continue working on this, but it willl be tomorrow or the next day before I can finish it (personal commitments).


DaltonST


Edit: attachment removed due to new version. See OP.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

Thanks for your attachments, especially main.json. That is priceless test data, and I am using that instead of my original main.json.

I have fixed the majority of the issues for the next version, but since my installed plug-ins are different from yours, I suspect that some of my issues are a result of my using your main.json without the corresponding plug-in shortcuts having being created during their initialization upon startup.

Example: Shift+B

It appears in my listing, but with a name that is just the UUID (unique name) of that "action". In my Preferences > Shortcuts, which of course is influenced by your main.json, I have no Shift+B to be found anywhere.

I will attach to this post a test version 1.0.99 of Job Spy for you to run to test whether your Shift+B shows up properly in the JS+ GUI Tool Shortcut listing.

Regardless, I will continue working on this, but it willl be tomorrow or the next day before I can finish it (personal commitments).

Looks perfect to me

No more unknown unknowns, and I can where the see duplicates came from; me forgetting to click Done button after entering a Custom sequence Ψ²

Minor issue - the Move to next/previous match shortcuts have multiple default values, which you show as NF3 and Shift+NShift+F3, suggest they should be shown as N, F3 and Shift+N, Shift+F3.

Just so you know - Shift+B etc is one of my shortcuts for built-in Open With feature - Open EPUB with Balabolka (TTS program). Other Shift+single letter are other Open With assignments, e.g. Shift+W is open DOCX with Word.

Thanks again.

BR

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.84 -2017-11-20 GUI Tool Shortcuts Listing: Technical Changes



DaltonST

[vigrom]

@DaltonST

Hi!

I’ve been using Calibre since some years now and was always wondering why the last-modified date was changed for my whole library every time I added or removed a custom column.

Luckily, I’ve stumbled upon this thread and your message where you mention your „New GUI Tool: Set Last-Modified Date to Date-Added“.

Please kindly let me know where I can get this tool and how I can install in my Calibre (Mac OS, v. 3.12).

Thank you so much!


PS: Please go easy on me in terms of technical instructions - I am a newbie.

[DaltonST]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=269911 is the Original Post of Job Spy. Install it as for any other plug-in. Then, use its menu system to use any of its 35 tools.


DaltonST

[vigrom]

Thank you some much for your quick reply and help!

I have installed the Job Spy and am now exploring its multiple settings (the learning curve being anything but for newbie like me). I was, however, already able to reset the „last-modified“ to „date-added“ for a few books - looks like it’s exactly what I was looking for!

Again, lots of thanks!

[Rellwood]

Hi,

Is there any way of revoving any JS articles from the SQ file in the library?

I don't know how many times I have tried JS and loved it until it hits a library with conflicting rules. It takes forever for the library's to get back in order (this is worse when I try and "peek" at an older library). It seems that I remove JS, get rid of the JSON, but down the road I try it agiain, and it automatically resets to the exact same settings it was before (and before) when I just want a fresh install without any previous data in it. I decided that it is stored in the db file and can't predict when it will show up.

This is made worse when I try to create a new library and the data is carried over.

Any suggestions?