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American_Desi · 03-28-2018, 12:08 AM

So in my case, I have the publication date in the format "Nov 1989." I want to change the series number to yyyymm format, so in this case, "198911"

First problem I'm seeing (see screen shot) is that I don't have an option to specify a different destination field.

Also, by "rexgex" I assume you mean a wild card expression? I'm not sure what Calibre understands here. I assume from what you are saying that I would have to make a custom column first to translation the publication date into yyyymm format?

EDIT: OK, nevermind first problem above. Apparently the way to get "destination field" option is to select "regular expression" in search mode. I'm still not sure how to translate the "Nov 1989" pubdate to "yyyymm" formation. But I assume that, if I could do that, I would select the "series index" as the destination field.

03-28-2018, 12:08 AM	#8
American_Desi Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2016 Device: iPad Pro 12.9"	So in my case, I have the publication date in the format "Nov 1989." I want to change the series number to yyyymm format, so in this case, "198911" First problem I'm seeing (see screen shot) is that I don't have an option to specify a different destination field. Also, by "rexgex" I assume you mean a wild card expression? I'm not sure what Calibre understands here. I assume from what you are saying that I would have to make a custom column first to translation the publication date into yyyymm format? EDIT: OK, nevermind first problem above. Apparently the way to get "destination field" option is to select "regular expression" in search mode. I'm still not sure how to translate the "Nov 1989" pubdate to "yyyymm" formation. But I assume that, if I could do that, I would select the "series index" as the destination field. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by American_Desi; 03-28-2018 at 12:25 AM.