Saving Books: Make folder using only last part of hierarchical tags?

[Feather_Qwill]

Hey, is it possible to Save Books to Device with a folder system that uses hierarchical tags for one of the folder levels, but only taking the final 'part' of the tag?

ie:

if genre = speculative.science_fiction
then, given a file structure of
(genre)/(author)/(title)
it would be:
science_fiction/Bujold, Lois McMaster/Miles Errant.epub
(instead of speculative.science_fiction/Bujold, Lois McMaster/Miles Errant.epub)

and

genre = speculative.fantasy.urban_fantasy
--> urban_fantasy/Butcher, Jim/Storm Front.epub
(Instead of speculative.fantasy.urban_fantasy/Butcher, Jim/Storm Front.epub)

Why? I'm trying to cut out one of my custom columns that I need for in-calibre organization, but is unnecessary on my reader. All the contents of Column B are essentially subheadings of the contents of Column A.


Is there any way to tell calibre to do this? I know you can tell it to use shortened versions of authors, etc.




Extra: I'm trying to figure out how to change the reader that calibre uses by default when opening a book from within the program. Anyone know how? I did this once, but I can't remember it.

[chaley]

Assuming that the genre column is type "text" and not "text, like tags", and further assuming that its lookup key is #genre, then the template expression to get the last component is

{#genre:list_item(-1,.)}

See the documentation for the list_item function for more details.

[Feather_Qwill]

Is there any way to do this with the "comma-separated text" type of column? Or do I basically need to make a new custom column and somehow copy everything over?

I'd rather keep the comma-separated tag variety if possible, since I often use multiple tags (ie: both Historical and Fantasy for something like Naomi Novik's Temeraire books, or Urban Fantasy and Mystery for Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Feather_Qwill

Is there any way to do this with the "comma-separated text" type of column? Or do I basically need to make a new custom column and somehow copy everything over?

I'd rather keep the comma-separated tag variety if possible, since I often use multiple tags (ie: both Historical and Fantasy for something like Naomi Novik's Temeraire books, or Urban Fantasy and Mystery for Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books.

Sure, but you need to specify exactly what is to happen when there is more than one value. Do you want the end of the first tag, the end of the last tag, all the ends concatenated together, or something else?

[Feather_Qwill]

Thank you!

So would I use
{#genre:list_item(1,-1,.)} ?

or something like

{#genre:list_item(-1,.),first_non_empty(value)}

to select the last part of the first tag?


I'm sorry, I just have a bit of a hard time understanding all the technical language in the manual.

[chaley]

Selecting the first genre from a list of them is a bit complicated. We must first be sure that we know what "first" means. You probably mean it to be the first displayed, so we need to sort the list (list_sort) because inside calibre its sort order isn't defined. We then must extract the first tag from the sorted list (sublist), and finally extract the last item from that first tag (list_item).

The following template in template program mode should work

{#genre:'list_item(sublist(list_sort($, 0, ','), 0, 1, ','), -1, '.')'}

We need to use template program mode because we are using the output of one function as the input for another, something that cannot be done in the simpler single function mode.

[Feather_Qwill]

Thank you for all your help.