Comic Rack Updating From Bottom Up

[SteveHutchinsASBFA]

Hello,

I'm not sure whether to label this as a bug report or feature request because I'm not sure how the program is supposed to be functioning. Please feel free to label this appropriately. This may also be two separate issues, but they seem like the same basic thing to me.

I had two instances recently where I tried to add information to ComicRack outside of the program itself and it failed.

1. The AI wrote me some Python scripts to inject custom field values "Width" and "Height" with appropriate information into the ComicDB.xml file. All of them failed. We wrote a script to determine the information was actually added to the ComicDB.xml file and it was. We also wrote scripts to validate the format of the XML information we injected and it was valid. Basically, all evidence suggests this should have worked, but the information will not show in the program.

Disclaimer: I don't know Python, so when I say "we", I don't really mean "we". It was all the AI (but it was a great learning experience for me, so, I guess there's a "we" there). I have a good, concise explanation from the AI as to our journey and I still have most, if not all, of the scripts, if you need any of that.

2. I've also tried to update ComicInfo.xml files via the Comic Tagger app. In ComicRack, I've clicked "refresh", made sure "allow writing of book info into files" and "book files are updated automatically" were engaged and even rebooted the program. None of these added the information to the program itself. The only thing that worked is deleting and re-adding the book. This isn't ideal, though, as any metadata outside of the ComicDB.xml would be lost.

So, basically, it seems like ComicRack has some issues importing data from the ground up.

Thanks,

--Steve