09-22-2010, 06:51 AM | #76 | |
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Actually, never mind, it just occured to me that I can do this by creating one of those composed custom columns. |
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09-22-2010, 07:05 AM | #77 | |
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However, I am willing to add composite columns as a source field. It provides a template facility, but it does so in a way that makes the choice between source fields explicit and obvious. Of course, the composite fields cannot be a destination, and wouldn't be offered as one. Imagine you set up a composite as '{series} - {series_index} {title}'. Specify this as the source. Use a regexp '^(- )**' and a null replacement. Set the destination to title (or wherever). For books with series Foo index 1, the result is 'Foo - 1 - Title'. Without series, you get 'Title'. |
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09-23-2010, 05:29 PM | #79 |
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I got lost in this post somewhere in the middle lol
So, I THINK what I'm looking for is what you are discussing and isn't available yet? If I want to use the "Search and Replace" to change all the titles of my books from "{Title}" to "[{Series}] {Title}", I still have to wait, right? The regular expression is simple "^" but didn't look like you can use metadata in the replace section yet, correct? |
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The Save to Device (or Disk) Template controls the Pathname when Exported.. Internal (under the skirts) and External, need not be the same. Just change your Export (save) template. (very soon there will be MORE template options, thanks to C Haley and crew ) |
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1) use source field of series, use destination field of title, use prepend, and add the brackets in the RE 2) create a composite column that displays what you want, then use it at the source. I am not sure why you are trying to do this, so I can't tell you which way is better or if there is an alternate solution. |
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09-25-2010, 02:03 PM | #83 |
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Thanks for the responses. I'm a little nervouse about installing the Beta so I'll wait for the full release.
As for the "reason", it's simple. I want to read my books on my Kindle in order of series. As we all know, The Kindle sucks in this regard as it has no support of Series info/tags. I don't like the "change pub date/sort by date" method. And sure, I changed my "send to device template" so when the books are saved on the Kindle, the series info is in the filename. Great. Awesome. Does me no good, as the Kindle is getting the title from the Metadata. Now, if there was a "set metadata ON send to device" that would work. But for now, I need to change the actual title of the book to "[01] Storm Front". I'd rather it not be changed in Calibre but I can deal with that if that's what it takes for me to get the Title change on the Kindle. |
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You could help the effort by testing on a copy of your library. There may be things that you do that no one else does, or things you want that no one has expressed. We won't know about these unless you try. And once it is released, changing behavior is much harder. |
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