[Enhancement] Make author search library specific

[Nicholas Southwell]

I have different Calibre libraries for: ebooks, downloaded free stories, music, and videos. I would like each library to do a different search when I click on an "author" name.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Changing the component for this bug.

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[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

@Charles: Are you interested in adding a template to custom column
definitions that can be used to generate links for item values? If so
this request can be satisfied by creating a custom column and setting a
template for it. Otherwise this is a wontfix.

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

@Kovid: one can solve this problem with custom url template in book details. For example:

program:
 lib = current_library_name();
 if lib == 'music' then
  template('https://musicplace.com/{author}')
 elif lib == 'video' then
  template('https://videoplace.com/{/title}/{author}')
 else
  template('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{author}')
 fi

This is safer because nothing else in calibre must change, other than to make the template tester available in Look & feel / Book details.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Well the idea is to allow custom columns to have customizable URL
templates. Your suggestion would only affect the authors column.

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

I see. The OP wanted authors so I thought that was what we were talking about. It is still worth adding the template tester to the author link definition box in preferences / book details.

I can add a search template box to create_column. I can also make render.py use the box. However, I don't know what to do for the content server so I would leave that to you. OK?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Yes, that's fine I will handle the server part.