Where and how to add the custom columns?

[Senor-S]

I installed the repo and plugin, thanks! Now I don't know how and where to add what column. Can your give an example?

[AshleyDeo]

Make sure the folder where your calibre library is located is added to Jellyfin. On Admin Dashboard, go to My Plugins (you can configure the settings for all your plugins here) Click Calibre Plugin. There will be dropdowns for each library and its sections. Add your columns to the sections. Press Save at the bottom. You may have to refresh/replace the metadata for that library in Jellyfin.

[Senor-S]

There will be dropdowns for each library and its sections. Add your columns to the sections.

The dropdown say "Genres: default" and "Text: default". There are + icons that reveal more options, like People, Artists: default, Colorists etc. I don't get how to add a custom column. And I don't understand what exactly I'd write if I want to put in, say Calibre's "artist" or "collection" tag. Sorry for being dumb.

[AshleyDeo]

All of this depends on how you setup your Calibre and what metadata you want Jellyfin to have.

It would also be best if Calibre was at the top of the Jellyfin library's Metadata readers in the library settings.

Default

default means that section parses Calibre's predefined columns. You can remove default if it adds info you don't want or you can keep it and add other columns to add additional metadata.

Custom Data

You can put the Lookup name of any custom columns created in Calibre into the section as long as it has no code.

For example:

• Books don't have a parental rating system. In Calibre I made a custom columns for parental rating called content_rating. In Jellyfin, in the parental rating section I added content_rating and saved. Now my books have parental rating M/PG/G... in Jellyfin and can be filtered through the parental rating settings for users. I can also change the data for the column in Calibre and it will update in Jellyfin after refreshing the metadata.
  Calibre Custom Column
  Jellyfin Plugin Calibre Ratings

• In Calibre, my Comics library has custom columns for inker, editor, cover_artist, etc. I added the columns to matching section in Jellyfin so all my comics have all the people that have worked on it. Additionally Jellyfin reads the names and pulls the info for each person from ComicVine.
  Jellyfin with People metadata added

• I have custom columns named characters and extra_tags and added them as tags in Jellyfin. The tags section has default;characters;extra_tags

[Senor-S]

This helped a lot, thanks!