Enhancement request: Ability to customize epub catalogue tag

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calibre, version 1.15.0 on Windows 7 64-bit
Plugin: Catalog_EPUB_1.0.0

Tag is incorrectly spelt "catalog" vice the Queen's English "catalogue" :) :) :).

Would also like to add a prefix "_" so that it sorts at the top of a tags sort (for quick access).

This indicates that a user should probably be allowed to customize the tag completely on the initial generation dialogue then have the customization persist across invocations.

(Apologies in advance if this is the incorrect forum to post enhancement requests; please advise if so and where. Tx!)

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Changing the component for this bug.

 assignee griker
 tag catalogs
 status triaged

[Katja (katjawy)]

Hi Kovid,
the former mails seems to be spam. But due to them the request come into my mind again and I found a fix. I also like having Catalog with Underscore at the top. But cuuzrently it will be overwritten.

Here is my solution:

calibre/db/adding.py row 252
# matches = cache._search('title:="{}" and tags:="{}"'.format(title.replace('"', '\\"'), _('Catalog')), None)
matches = cache._search('title:="{}" '.format(title.replace('"', '\\"')), None)

calibre/db/adding.py row 263/264
# mi.tags = [_('Catalog')]
if db_id is None:
    mi.tags = [_('Catalog')]

calibre/gui2/dialogs/catalog_ui.py row 80
# self.label_2.setText(_("Catalog &title (existing catalog with the same title will be replaced):"))
self.label_2.setText(_("Catalog &title (existing book with the same title will be replaced):"))

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

[Katja (katjawy)]

Hi Kovid,
thanks for your help with this.
But ... sorry to say ... with the committed change, the match will not find a catalog with a different tag and therefore create a new one when the tag is changed.
The match should not search for tag=_('Catalog') anymore. Also I adjusted the dialog hint from "catalog" to "book" to be in line with the new behaviour.

calibre/db/adding.py row 252
# matches = cache._search('title:="{}" and tags:="{}"'.format(title.replace('"', '\\"'), _('Catalog')), None)
matches = cache._search('title:="{}" '.format(title.replace('"', '\\"')), None)

calibre/gui2/dialogs/catalog_ui.py row 80
# self.label_2.setText(_("Catalog &title (existing catalog with the same title will be replaced):"))
self.label_2.setText(_("Catalog &title (existing book with the same title will be replaced):"))

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

The change preserves tags other than Catalog, so leave the Catalog tag
in place and add whatever other tags you like.

[Katja (katjawy)]

ok, but it does not work.
The initial request is to accept beside "catalog" also "catalogue" and "_catalog".
The match calibre/db/adding.py row 252 will find all of them which is perfect.

Your change in row 263/267 prevent "hardcoding" the catalog tag which is perfect too.

But your new else-statement in row 271 is a problem as mi_tag is NONE for existing books and therefore existing tags will be overwritten.

Please remove 271 and 272 and everything works as expected.
In case the user delete all tags or use something different to *catalog*, the match will not found it and a new catalog will be created instead of overwriting which is same as old behaviour.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/4c68fafd41057cc6ae4df975ae8c9b1a0ce9209a

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