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Originally Posted by crissman
 Hi, I was wondering if anyone would have some suggestions for me. I am new plugboards column management. I have been reading and trying various different ideas others have posted, but haven't found exactly what I am looking for. ... Thanks and sorry for the long winded post. Just trying to give all the information I can first off.
Crissman |
Crissman,
Details are always important when asking for help. I am WAAAAAY more long winded than you were. So don't worry.
I threw in a query about series 'shortening' back in post #52 in this thread. And that brought Chaley into the discussion two posts later. And if you read the thread from there, you will get what you are looking for, I promise. There's a bunch of columns you have to create to make his suggestions work for you. But they are clearly outlined instruction-wise, with the only warning I have to COPY and PASTE from the examples, since there is a space that is required that can be missed when typing.
My own version of Chaley's hard work is:
[{#readrank:ifempty(9)}{#genre:ifempty(SF) {#stripped_series:lookup(.\s,#initials,.,#shortene d,series)}{series_index:|-|-}{title}
You won't need readrank, that's my estimation on how quickly I want to read the book, with 0 being NOW and 9 being when prodded into doing it by others. I also have a genre field which is my SINGLE selection of the various possible tags. Something like 0MY or 1SF to start my onKindle title. My shortened series field is a product of another Chaley suggestion to test for series length, and if TOO long, reduce it to just initials. So Game of Thrones becomes GoT. My titles are started with a controllable indicator of series and number, or nothing if not standalone, and then the title.
NONE of the work is mine, so I ask you review Chaley's responses in the thread starting with #54. After that, you'll feel like a calibre programmer.