[Feature Request] Column for Lists

[secondsabre]

Heya, wondering if it's possible to add in a new column option for list view, printing the name of any Lists (standard or Smart) that the book appears in. Basically the same functionality as right-click > Show in List, but just a nice easy text array in a field instead of clicking through multiple submenus.

The Show In List context menu also displays folder hierarchies, but would probably be easier to just show the List name itself. Also, I assume that for a large display, this field might make the DB chug since I think it runs a query on demand, so I dunno if it's feasible. Still, it's nice to dream.

As always, thanks in advance for the incredible work making this beast continue to live.

[maforget]

I assume that for a large display, this field might make the DB chug since I think it runs a query on demand, so I dunno if it's feasible.

No all data is loaded into memory, things like smart lists would be very hard without having all the data at hand. Maybe SQL does have some queries when updating data, but initially it is all on hand.

Actually the program already does something like that. I haven't dived into it really but there is some kind of Reverse Index that is used when a value is changed. It find the lists that uses that value so it can update the list cache of books id. So using a similar system (or that one) would probably help since all the info for each book is already cached. But the current system does cycle through each list and is even done in a background thread, so yes the current way would probably be too much.

The issue I see is more that the list of data you see are all metadata of the books. So this doesn't fit with the rest of the data. Also a nice little list wouldn't fit since these are pretty much just rows of data, that would mean that it would probably look weird with a ton of spacing between each book.

It would probably be best for an Info Panel plugin or similar that would sit on the side and be called when a book is selected.