set default value [Enhancement]

Bug #1886079 reported by Oliver König
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calibre
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Charles Haley

Bug Description

Hello,
is there a posibility to set the default value to an own column/field?

For example: a yes/no field actually is empty, i prefer a "no"

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote : Re: calibre bug 1886079

Changing the component for this bug.

 assignee cbhaley
 status triaged

Changed in calibre:
assignee: nobody → Charles Haley (cbhaley)
status: New → Triaged
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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote : Fixed in master

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

 status fixreleased

Changed in calibre:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Oliver König (soloking) wrote :

Thank you for the implementation, unfortunately it doesn't work.
I set the default value for existing own fields and added a book (whether via Paste & copy or Automatic folder), the values were still undefined.
A new column for the test also has the same result.

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Charles Haley (cbhaley) wrote :

It works fine for me. Steps I tried:

1) Add a default value to several columns including Yes/No, Enumerated, Behaves like tags, Float, and Int.
2) Restart calibre.
3a) Drag a book onto calibre. All the defaults are filled in.
3b) Add a book using the Add Books button. All the defaults are filled in.
3c) Add a book via auto-add. All the defaults are filled in.

Note that this feature will not affect existing books even if you add a new format. It affects books adding books that are not in calibre's database.

What steps are you following when it fails? What operating system are you running?

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Charles Haley (cbhaley) wrote :

I found what is probably the problem. For Yes/No columns the default "False" (or whatever it is in your language) wasn't correctly applied when adding a book.

Changed in calibre:
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
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Oliver König (soloking) wrote :

ok, thank you. I wanted to test it tonight (Germany), I had actually only tried it with "Nein" which is "No".

Kovid Goyal (kovid)
Changed in calibre:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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