Custom column not recognized in "Sending books to devices"

[cheveguerra]

Hi everybody,

I have a strange problem, sometime ago I saved a template in the /preferences/Sending books to devices/ menu, I think it was this one:

{author_sort}/{#seriesshort}{#seriesshort_index:0>2s||-}{title} - {author_sort}

and it worked, I have a lot of books in my phone with that format to prove it

But just yesterday I uploaded some more books and though the "metadata plugboard" shows the correct info (something like this "KL02-Deserter"), the actual file in the card gets created in this path:

"Shepherd, Mike/Deserter - Mike Shepherd.epub"

and it should be:

"Shepherd, Mike/KL02 - Deserter - Mike Shepherd.epub"

The seriesshort info is missing! (seriesshort is the column that has just the initials of the complete name of the series)

So I went to the preferences/Sending books to devices/ menu and when I clickon the "Template Editor" button, it says:

EXCEPTION: Value: unknown field #seriesshort

So what am I doing wrong that I wasn't doing before? Why does it say that it does not recognize the custom column when the "metaplugboard" does recognize it?

Regards

Jose Alberto Guerra

[chaley]

What version of calibre are you running?

What is the value for the save template in the plugin for your device? (preferences -> advanced -> device interface plugins -> whatever device you are using)

[cheveguerra]

Originally Posted by chaley

What version of calibre are you running?

What is the value for the save template in the plugin for your device? (preferences -> advanced -> device interface plugins -> whatever device you are using)

Ok, I checked and it has the "original" template, I changed that and now everything is working fine, thank you!!!

So if I wanted to have a "General Save Template" what should I do?

Maybe leave blank the "save template" in "Preferences -> advanced -> device interface plugins -> whatever device you are using"??

or do I have to check the "device interface plugins" of the devices I use and make sure that they have the correct "Save Template".

Regards

Jose Alberto Guerra

[chaley]

Originally Posted by cheveguerra

So if I wanted to have a "General Save Template" what should I do?

Maybe leave blank the "save template" in "Preferences -> advanced -> device interface plugins -> whatever device you are using"??

or do I have to check the "device interface plugins" of the devices I use and make sure that they have the correct "Save Template".

I looked at the code, and yes, setting the save template to blank in a device plugin template will work.

Note that you don't need to do this if you have never touched a device plugin. The plugin's value only comes into play if you have opened the plugin's customization dialog, changed something (anything), and saved it.

Also note that you can delete a device plugin's configuration. If you go to your calibre configuration directory, you will see a set of "device_drivers_*.py" files. Deleting one of these files deletes all the configuration information for that device plugin.

[cheveguerra]

Originally Posted by chaley

I looked at the code, and yes, setting the save template to blank in a device plugin template will work.

Note that you don't need to do this if you have never touched a device plugin. The plugin's value only comes into play if you have opened the plugin's customization dialog, changed something (anything), and saved it.

Also note that you can delete a device plugin's configuration. if you go to your calibre configuration directory, you will see a set of "device_drivers_*.py" files. Deleting one of these files deletes all the configuration information for that device plugin.

Ok, thank you!!