[GUI Plugin] Reading Goal

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

ANOTHER EDIT: After converting everything to a float column and removing round(), the test version gets a more accurate count.

More accurate? It should be an exact match.

[ownedbycats]

Yeah, an exact match.

[Terisa de morgan]

Question (be kind to me, Saturday morning....): How can you see the books that are included in your custom challenges?

[ownedbycats]

Go to Edit Goal and in the dropdown that lets you switch between Shelf View and Genre View they're listed there.

[ownedbycats]

Would autoadd tags for challenges (ignored if book is not in the year's goal) be feasible?

Use-case: I use an action chain to add the rggoal:2024 autoadd tag and populate the genres column. I could also add a template to selectively add a rgchallengesurchases_2024 tag to matching books.

EDIT: Also, a slight bug: The tooltips for the date and pages column doesn't appear in Genre mode.

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Would autoadd tags for challenges (ignored if book is not in the year's goal) be feasible?

Not easily. But I'll take it into consideration.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

EDIT: Also, a slight bug: The tooltips for the date and pages column doesn't appear in Genre mode.

I'll fix it.

[thiago.eec]

Version 1.7.1 - 16 Oct 2024

- Bug fix: show date/speed tooltips in genre view

[Wiggo]

Would it be a lot of work to also place the series in the overview?

[sandrilea]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Would it be a lot of work to also place the series in the overview?

I would love that! I read a lot of series' where I don't always remember the titles. It would be great to see how many titles of a given series I already read.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by sandrilea

I would love that! I read a lot of series' where I don't always remember the titles. It would be great to see how many titles of a given series I already read.

Create a VL for just READ (the search is to work with your read status method)
Now look at the Tag Browses SERIES The count number now just refer to the VL instead of All

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by theducks

Create a VL for just READ (the search is to work with your read status method)
Now look at the Tag Browses SERIES The count number now just refer to the VL instead of All

Alternately, a series:true VL and display the column you use for read status.

That said, I would also find looking at series in Reading Goal's edit dialog to be useful; sometimes I can't entirely remember if a specific book is a standalone or not.

[theducks]

A standalone book in a series gets a 0 index (integer part) in my library.

But I don't have a way to indicate when you don't NEED (per Author) to read prior volumes

[ownedbycats]

Not standalone series books, but non-series books entirely.

[thiago.eec]

ALERT: Please backup your database before trying this.

This test version adds some new requested features:

1) Auto add

• Now you can auto add books to your custom challenges.
• You need to use a python dictionary to determine which value would trigger the auto add for a certain challenge, e.g.: {'challenge_name_1': {'#custom_column' : 'column_value'}, 'challenge_name_2': {'tags': 'some_tag'}.
• The auto add feature (to goal or challenges) is triggered when you change the relevant columns. But, if you change the auto add settings, the plugin now do a full scan to check your library, so the books already matching the criteria will also be added.
• When adding a book to a challenge, in case it is not in your goal, it will be automatically added to your goal, then to the challenge.

2) Added a series column to the Edit Reading Goal dialog

[ownedbycats]

Did I make a mistake with the python dictionary here?

{'Books Purchased in 2024': {'#admintags' : 'readinggoal:purchases2024'}

EDIT: I forgot the closing curly-bracket.