03-03-2024, 07:30 AM | #31 | |
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Having spent an hour putting back all of my "collections" using #myshelves" in the lookup field and "Collections" as the column name and it not working as there were no "Collections" on the Kobo, (management set to automatic), then deleting the column and trying "series" in the lookup field, and that not working and deleting the column again, I need a rest... I'm sure I didn't have this much trouble when I first did it, I just can't seem to find a simple "Do this" type thing when searching for how to add a column for collections, and I've the same problem with percentage read as well. Having had my data disk go AWOL sorting out my PC has been a bit of a nightmare over the past few days. Luckily I do back up my data, but some stuff just wouldn't work when I copied the backup to my Data disk. |
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03-03-2024, 07:33 AM | #32 |
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At least I've sorted out the %age read column....
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03-03-2024, 06:44 PM | #33 |
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03-03-2024, 06:46 PM | #34 |
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Also, after configuring the collections column, did you try reading the collections/shelves from the device using the Kobo Utilities plugin? This should be able to copy the on-device collections to your new Collections/#myshelves column. One other item is that the column is only created in the active library. Easiest was to copy it to other libraries (if you have more that one) is to copy a book to the other library. Series was popular before Kobo started showing series information. It will automagically put books into collections based on the series name. Last edited by DNSB; 03-03-2024 at 07:07 PM. |
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#myshelves is a lookup name. Do you have a custom column with that lookup name? (I assume this was not a special trigger written into the plugin)
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03-03-2024, 07:49 PM | #36 |
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Minor nit is that when you create a custom column, the lookup name is not prefixed with #. Though after creation the lookup will have the # added to it. If you try creating the lookup name with the prepended #, it will be removed.
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FWIW: this is because when the code was written many years ago we wanted to be able to change the prefix for a custom field lookup name. That is why the field_metadata has the attribute 'custom_field_prefix'. As it turned out we never changed it.
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03-04-2024, 12:14 PM | #38 |
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Thanks for the information. I was curious about why it was done that way.
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