Hi,
I'm running an Action Chain that filters a custom column with annotation count:true, then selects a View Manager preset that sorts the list by Last Action Date (from Last Modified plugin). This should give me in Library View a list of recently annotated titles in Calibre viewer.
However, as the Last Action column is also updated by other db changes, I thought of adding a custom column to display a book's last annotation date.
From looking at db\cache.py, I take it this might be possible...
... because of that annot['timestamp'] reference.
Please help?
(I'm aware that the annotation browser sorts by last annotated titles but still thought this might be useful)
I'm running an Action Chain that filters a custom column with annotation count:true, then selects a View Manager preset that sorts the list by Last Action Date (from Last Modified plugin). This should give me in Library View a list of recently annotated titles in Calibre viewer.
However, as the Last Action column is also updated by other db changes, I thought of adding a custom column to display a book's last annotation date.
From looking at db\cache.py, I take it this might be possible...
Code:
@write_api
def merge_annotations_for_book(self, book_id, fmt, annots_list, user_type='local', user='viewer'):
'''
Merge the specified annotations into the existing annotations for book_id, fm, user_type, and user.
'''
from calibre.utils.date import EPOCH
from calibre.utils.iso8601 import parse_iso8601
amap = self._annotations_map_for_book(book_id, fmt, user_type=user_type, user=user)
merge_annotations(annots_list, amap)
alist = []
for val in itervalues(amap):
for annot in val:
ts = (parse_iso8601(annot['timestamp']) - EPOCH).total_seconds()
alist.append((annot, ts))
self._set_annotations_for_book(book_id, fmt, alist, user_type=user_type, user=user)Please help?
(I'm aware that the annotation browser sorts by last annotated titles but still thought this might be useful)
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