Template for transfering books is ignored

[Loeffel]

Hi I just wonder what I am doing wrong. I try to select the path a book is saved onto my Kindle depending if it is coming from a series of books or not. So I changed the template under
'Preferences' => 'Sending book to devices'

My first program code was:

PHP Code:

program:
    test(
        field('series'),
        '{series}/{series} - Band_{series_index} - {authors} - {series_index}_{title}',
        '{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}'
    ) 


then I changed the testing field and tried:

PHP Code:

program:
    test(
        field('series_index'),
        '{series}/{series} - Band_{series_index} - {authors} - {series_index}_{title}',
        '{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}'
    ) 


after that I changed the programming and tried:

PHP Code:

program:
    test(
        ifempty(field('series_index'),'1'),
        '{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}',
        '{series}/{series} - Band_{series_index} - {authors} - {series_index}_{title}'
    ) 


because all that failed I finally put in:

PHP Code:

{author_sort}/{title} - {authors} 


I was shocked to see that the result was in all cases the same! Calibre always uses

PHP Code:

{series}/{series} - Band_{series_index} - {authors} - {series_index}_{title} 


as template. Sonething I totally do not understand as changing the template was never a problem.
Until now I switched between those to templates manually before uploading books to my Kindle. Now it doesn't work anymore. I am confused.
I wanted to make the switching automatically by programming a script, but now it doesn't work at all.

I found somewhere in the forum that it should be set on 'Save books to disk' too, but even that doesn't change anything. :-(
The programming would be so useful and I used it already to set 'column' colors.


By the way, it is possible to delete the templates, that aren't used anymore?

[chaley]

You need to tell calibre that the strings on lines 4 and 5 are sub-templates, not constant strings. The template should be

program:
    test(
        field('series'),
        template('{series}/{series} - Band_{series_index} - {authors} - {series_index}_{title}'),
        template('{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}')
    )

Also make sure that the template is not set in the kindle plugin (preferences -> plugins -> device interface plugins -> kindle (the right one)). The template in the plugin overrides the template in send-to-device.

[Loeffel]

Thanks! Now it works as expected.

Do you know if there is a way to delete the old (wrong) settings from the list?

[Loeffel]

I found it, it is stored in the gui.py. I could delete it. Now the defect entries are gone.