Metadata Display Columns

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Welcome @swj1442291549

I am not seeing this behavior in the current internal build. Stay tuned for the next maintenance release. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

It seems that I have fixed this issue. Let me explain a bit more.

This problem of missing custom meta data column only happen for one specific custom column (“Title”). Most of the other custom column works fine.

When I was playing around the custom view, I found that another custom column (‘bibcode’) is somehow entangled with “Title”. In the info panel, I can confirmed that bibcode and title have different data. But when I added “bibcode” Column into the UI, it was column “Title” that appeared in the UI instead of bibcode, which is weird. So I deleted the bibcode and title column and regenerated them in the Data preference and the problem magically disappears :slight_smile:

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Interesting. :thinking: Can you reproduce the issue with the mixed up metadata?

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Yes I can.

After my last post, I found there are some other pairs of metadata and they can mess the column layout up. Fortunately, it can be fixed by deleting and creating them again.

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So you can make it happen at will or you just found other attributes that did the same thing?
If the former…

  • Were you duplicating and renaming them?

  • Were you previously running the beta version before the release last September?

  • Can you provide steps to reproduce the issue?

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To be exact, If I found these weird-behaving metadata (not all metadata columns have this issue), I can reproduce the custom column issue. But I’m not sure why they exist or how did I make them. I didn’t duplicate any column but I can remember I indeed changed the capitalization of some columns (not sure if they are the mixed up metadata).

I just download the software so it is always the latest version 3.0.4

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I saw what you saw and did what u did to solve the issue since the first beta of DT3. Two custom metadata field stuckIng together happens much less frequently now but it still does. But I can’t recall what exactly did I do to create this situation.