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Old 12-18-2014, 03:36 PM   #37
chaley
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Let's say a book belongs to two different series. With your proposed enhancements, would it then be possible to have the book in two different collections with two different names (i.e., Series A 01 - Book & Series B 05 -Book) even if that means you have to have two copies on the device?
You can do that today, at least on devices that support calibre-generated collections like my PRS-350 that my wife uses and other Sony readers, Android devices running CC, and (I think) Kobos.

I have not proposed any enhancements that affect devices, and in fact have not really proposed any enhancements at all. What I said in post 12 was:
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Given this fact, we are left with finding ways for people to solve the problem in some way within the existing structure. This is why I added grouped search terms several years ago, to provide a way to search across multiple columns using one lookup name. I am willing to add template functions to improve things if a) their semantics can be described in a sentence or two and b) they are generally useful. A function to return the values in a grouped search term might be one example.
It is up to someone who cares to propose the appropriate semantics for any new template language capabilities.
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