Yeah, though we first need a way to display it (see bug 661608).

Ok, I see, but... Can't be just one bug: "Implement viewing and editing of file metadata"

Thanks for your time!

Title editing is now implemented in git master, even though information is not written back to the file itself (bug 681828).
We also need to implement an editable Author field, so keeping this open for now.

*** Bug 710226 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Changing the summary to narrow it down a bit. Metadata in itself is a bit broad and can cover lots of things. Lets use this bug only for editing titles and author information.

As Cosimo said, you can edit titles now. Editing the author field needs to be implemented.

Hi, I was trying to implement the very same as that for title to the author field....
I added similar code for author as for title with some adjustments....
const _AUTHOR_ENTRY_TIMEOUT=200;

// Author value
        if (doc instanceof Documents.LocalDocument) {
            this._authorEntry = new Gtk.Entry({ activates_default: true,
                                               text: doc.author,
                                               editable: true,
                                               hexpand: true,
                                               width_chars: 40,
                                               halign: Gtk.Align.START });
           grid.attach_next_to (this._authorEntry, this._author, Gtk.PositionType.RIGHT, 2, 1);

            let docId = doc.id;
            this._authorEntryTimeout = 0;

            this._authorEntry.connect('changed', Lang.bind (this,
                function() {
                    if (this._authorEntryTimeout != 0) {
                        Mainloop.source_remove(this._authorEntryTimeout);
                        this._authorEntryTimeout = 0;
                    }

                    this._authorEntryTimeout = Mainloop.timeout_add(_AUTHOR_ENTRY_TIMEOUT, Lang.bind(this,
                        function() {
                            this._authorEntryTimeout = 0;
                            let newauthor = this._authorEntry.get_text();
                            TrackerUtils.setEditedAuthor(newauthor, docId, null);
                            return false;
                        }));
                }));
        } else {
            this._authorEntry = new Gtk.Label({ label: doc.author,
                                               halign: Gtk.Align.START });
            grid.attach_next_to (this._authorEntry, this._author, Gtk.PositionType.RIGHT, 2, 1);
        }




Also added the respective code in TrackerUtils.js for..........

function setEditedAuthor(newAuthor, docId, callback) {
    let sparql = ('INSERT OR REPLACE { <%s> tracker:coalesce(nco:fullname(?creator), nco:fullname(?publisher) \"%s\" }'.format(docId, newAuthor));

    Application.connectionQueue.update(sparql, null,
        function(object, res) {
            try {
                object.update_finish(res);
            } catch (e) {
                log('Unable to set the new author on ' + docId + ' to : ' + e.toString());
            }

            if (callback)
                callback();
        });

}


Please can you tell me what is the problem here with the code. The problem that I am facing is that although the author name is being displayed in the Gtk.Entry for author but on updating it is not getting updated....

(In reply to sparshpaliwal123@gmail.com from comment #6)
> Hi, I was trying to implement the very same as that for title to the author
> field....

Could you please attach your changes as patch? See https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/CodeContributionWorkflow#Submitting_patches

Created attachment 300201 [details] [review]
This patch is the initial work on the bug.

I have attached the patch for the work I had done on the bug.

I think here the problem is with sparql query

let sparql = ('INSERT OR REPLACE { <%s> tracker:coalesce(nco:fullname(?creator), nco:fullname(?publisher) \"%s\" }'.format(docId, newAuthor));

I tried a lot but was not able to find ontology for author field. Please can you help with this. I guess correcting this should make this work.

perhaps nco:creator?
http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nco/#creator

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