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Preference to trim the displayed details
In the details pane, there are a great many details that are of absolutely no interest to me, and the long list of possible details makes it hard to find those that are of interest to me. It would be great if there were a preference to turn on or off whether any given detail is displayed in this pane, app-wide.
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Inappropriate?While there is no preference in the software, there is a trick you can try to remove unwanted fields. I'm SURE this is not encouraged or supported, so make backups and proceed at your own risk.
If you go to the DL2 app file in your applications folder, control-click it and select "Show Package Contents." A new window should pop up, containing the folder "Contents." Open "Contents," and find the item template files, called "propertiesRelevantToMediumTypeBook.plist", "propertiesRelevantToMediumTypeMovie.plist", etc. Select the item type you want to change, and open it in TextEdit. You'll see an XML display of the various fields this item type can have; just delete the fields you don't want. Save it, making sure TextEdit doesn't try to save it as an RTF or something, and you should be good to go. You're literally changing the definition of the item type to not include some fields.
Again, BACKUP BEFORE TRYING THIS. If you update the software, you'll have to re-do this, as those files will get overwritten. And since this isn't sanctioned behavior, don't give the DM team crap if this breaks something. ;-) -
Inappropriate?Back in NeXT days, I'd occasionally go in and edit the .nib files. These days I'm not that foolhardy. So I guess I'll wait for the DM team to implement this.
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Inappropriate?Stefano- The best advice I'm able to give you is to select all of your items, and do a batch edit on them. If you remove the details you don't want, they won't show up in anything besides the edit view.
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Inappropriate?Jessie-that works for books already in the database; then only the details I need remain. But when I scan a new book, I still get the entire list of all possible details, even though I only really care to enter/update/edit (as the case may be) a small fraction of them.
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?Stefano-
Seriously, give editing the item properties file a chance; I just tested it with my own install, and didn't run into any problems (I'm on 2.3.2). There was a phase of DL2 where "Edition" didn't show up on movie entries, so I just added it here, and everything worked fine. Point being, I think you'll be safe to do this.
So, again:
Show Package Contents > Contents > Resources > propertiesRelevantToMediumTypeMovie.plist
Just copy this file to your documents folder (to make a backup), then open the original in Text Edit and delete fields you don't want to see, then save. Voila, you have it the way you want (in an easy, safe, but unsupported way).
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