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da_jane · 11-21-2012, 11:24 AM

I use calibre to update data to my releases.dearauthor.com site and as I was entering books today, I realized that some of my fields could easily be populated by a column from other columns, but I lack the knowledge on how to figure this out.

I'd be happy to pay someone to do this for me but essentially what I want to do is create a plugboard formula that takes the date published and populates another field called pub month. Therefore, if a book is published on August 13, 2013, the pub month field becomes 2013-Aug or something akin to that.

Can anyone help a girl out?

11-21-2012, 11:24 AM	#1
da_jane Evangelist Posts: 405 Karma: 692 Join Date: Sep 2006 Device: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 \| Kindle Paperwhite \| iPad Mini	Help wanted on created a plugboard formula for date I use calibre to update data to my releases.dearauthor.com site and as I was entering books today, I realized that some of my fields could easily be populated by a column from other columns, but I lack the knowledge on how to figure this out. I'd be happy to pay someone to do this for me but essentially what I want to do is create a plugboard formula that takes the date published and populates another field called pub month. Therefore, if a book is published on August 13, 2013, the pub month field becomes 2013-Aug or something akin to that. Can anyone help a girl out?