Action Chains Resources

[capink]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Removing ,'composite' shows them. But is there a technical reason to avoid this?

This was copied from older code I developed for a custom Find Duplicate version I have. I don't remember the details, but the code in the Find Duplicate gave the user the option to sort (the duplicate groups not calibre library view) using a template he directly enters in the template dialog. So, the composite was probably removed because it was redundant. Not sure, so try and see for yourself.

[hillcountryfare]

Originally Posted by capink

#!/usr/bin/env python
# ~*~ coding: utf-8 ~*~

__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2022, Ahmed Zaki <azaki00.dev@gmail.com>'
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I'm having an issue with this event where the next step in the action chain fires before the "applying metadata" dialog box / process finishes. If any of my subsequent actions involve metadata, it results in a Calibre dialog box that the metadata has changed. My current workaround is to add a lengthy pause after updating the metadata, but the amount of time the pause varies on the metadata and number of books selected.

To confirm this, I placed a dialog box in the step immediately after updating metadata, and you can see it appears on top of the "applying metadata" box.

I have a copy of the calibre temp folder that was generated during the action chain, and can provide that privately. I also have a video screen recording.

[capink]

Originally Posted by hillcountryfare

I'm having an issue with this event where the next step in the action chain fires before the "applying metadata" dialog box / process finishes. If any of my subsequent actions involve metadata, it results in a Calibre dialog box that the metadata has changed. My current workaround is to add a lengthy pause after updating the metadata, but the amount of time the pause varies on the metadata and number of books selected.

To confirm this, I placed a dialog box in the step immediately after updating metadata, and you can see it appears on top of the "applying metadata" box.

I have a copy of the calibre temp folder that was generated during the action chain, and can provide that privately. I also have a video screen recording.

In the action settings, make sure to tick the box "Wait for the metadata download jobs to finish"

[hillcountryfare]

Originally Posted by capink

In the action settings, make sure to tick the box "Wait for the metadata download jobs to finish"

I have that checked.

[capink]

I just tested and was not able to replicate you problem with the option checked. I've never actually used this action myself. Maybe some of the users who use it can chime in.

[capink]

This chains are for counting chapters in an epub book and saving the number into a custom column. For this chain to work you will need to have the Editor Chains plugin installed as well.

Editor Chains has an action called "Tag Actions" which allow the user to use criteria to locate tags. So for example, a user can use to search for all h1,h2,h3 tags with a class called "toc", and then count these tags, after which "Action Chains" can update a custom column with the count. Attached below is the chain that implement this solution (I left out specifying a class name and only specified tag names, you can add yourself with whatever criteria you wish).

Using this chain, the user has the opportunity to exclude or include tags based on their text (regex), so can only add tag the have the names chapter of part, or the tag that end or start with digit, and so on.

Note that you will have to configure the chain to choose the right column name you want to update.

[capink]

This chain is for counting chapters in an epub book and saving the number into a custom column. This chain counts the entries in the Toc. This is not as reliable as the method in the above post that counts headers based on criteria specified by the user as there might be non chapter ToC entries. But it is simpler and does not need much configuration—besides choosing the custom column—on the part of the user.

[ownedbycats]

This Action Chain will copy the current cover to the data folder. Note that opening the template editor will also activate the copy.

Thanks to @chaley for the python code.

[capink]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

This Action Chain will copy the current cover to the data folder. Note that opening the template editor will also activate the copy.

Thanks to @chaley for the python code.

Thanks. I updated this to a version that does not use templates to avoid invoking the copying when opening the template editor.

[nqk]

Thank you for the module "Book Added" for Event Manager.

Since I'm no developer, I would like to request for module that detects if a book has certain tag (run search when database is modified???)

Edit: I'm testing with Timer now...

[Comfy.n]

Is it possible to have an action toggle some Calibre preferences?

For example, to change the option to read metadata from contents/filenames: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=360814

[ownedbycats]

Posted in the Reading Goal thread, thought I should repost it here:

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

For those who read and track physical books in Calibre, here's an Action Chain that can set a #percentread column based on the current page number. It's useful alongside Reading Goal.

Uses columns #lastread (datetime) a #pagecount (int) and #percentread (int).

[slantybard]

I have built a simple chain that converts books into epub and then removes all formats except....

It works great thanks so much (and was easy to build), however, I would like to have the chain automatically remove all formats except epub. Is there any way to have it automatically have epub selected instead of me having to choose this option in the pop up dialog every time the chain is run?

I am sorry if I missed a post somewhere with an obvious answer to this sort of chain design.

[capink]

Single Field Edit > choose formats > predefined option should not prompt you at all.

[slantybard]

Originally Posted by capink

Single Field Edit > choose formats > predefined option should not prompt you at all.

Thank you so much, I had accidentally chosen calibre actions instead of single field!