[Sweetpea]

I finished my save-template for my non-meta-data-reading devices (I've got two).

I had several hurdles to take.

First of all: a folder structure. In order to not create one huge list of authors, I wanted to sort my authors in an alphabetic structure.

[A - D]/Adams, Douglas/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/01 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy v1.epub

So, I created a custom column, {#folder_name}:

{author_sort:switch(^[A-D],[A - D],^[E-J],[E - J],^[K-O],[K - O],^[P-T],[P - T],^[U-Z],[U - Z],[Other])}

(with thanks to Chaley).

The next part was easier, simply {author_sort}

Then {series}, but not all books have series, so, {series:|/|}


The next part is a bit more difficult. Let me explain:

My books have the following meta-data:

Author: Douglas Adams
Author Sort: Adams, Douglas
Title: HggtG - 01 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Series: The Hitchhiker's Guide
Series Index: 1

The reason why I have the series in the title is simply because I think that series info belongs to the title. But that does make it a bit harder in this case, as I'll need to strip it.

{#collection_title} did the job:

{title:re(.*? - .*? - (.*?),\1)}

A simple custom column {#version} (integer) finished it all.


My final field:

{#folder_name}/{author_sort}{series:|/|}/{series_index:0>2s|| - }{#collection_title} - v{#version:ifempty(0)}



Now, there's one oddity. When I make a custom column in my Library, with this template, I'll get:

[A - D]/Adams, Douglas/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/01 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy v1

However, if I use this template (or that custom column for that matter) as my save template, I'll get

[A - D]/Adams, Douglas/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/01 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy v#version.epub

As long as version isn't filled, I'll get "v0"...

there's something weird going on with that #version anyway, as I had it as floating point before. It refused to do anything with it then! Not even in a custom template...