02-26-2013, 08:37 PM
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Sequential entries in Title field
I have a bit of a problem with cleaning up some title entries in one of my libraries.
I have twenty-plus years worth of several magazines that I need to clean up the title entries on. The Series entries are correct (thanks to the Manage Series plug-in,) but the title entries are not. The standard that I am using in my library is that the series entry is the volume and number for the magazine, and the year and month are included in the title field. I am wondering if there is a way to make title field changes in quantities greater than a single entry. I want to be able to select a group of books (magazines) and tell Calibre that these are National Geographic 1988-xx, and have Calibre fill in the xx as 01, 02, 03... If anyone has ideas, please pass them on, I really do not want to have to do this on a title-by-title basis... |
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02-26-2013, 09:10 PM
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One of the (bulk mode S&R) replace values is Calibre fields {series_index} for example |
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02-26-2013, 09:16 PM
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Unfortunately, no.
just pulling some values out of my hat, it looks like this: Series: National Geographic [188.01] National Geographic [188.02] National Geographic [188.03] (This is the Volume and Number information for the magazine) and what i want to put in the title is: National Geographic 2008-01 National Geographic 2008-02 National Geographic 2008-03 (I want this to be the year and month of publication) |
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02-26-2013, 09:32 PM
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but you should be able to construct Play with this idea REGEX mode DESTINATION: Title APPEND value: 2008-\1 Search series_index: \d+\.(\d+) |
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02-26-2013, 10:18 PM
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I will play with this a bit, but my RegEx-fu is weak.
We may be making this a bit more complex than necessary. I am using the series_index to put the magazines in order, but if the replace in the title field were simply sequential, (xxxx-01, xxxx-02 etc.) it would be more than satisfactory. (e.g. I pick the magazines for the year 2008, make sure that they are in order, and then apply a replace to the title field such as: National Geographic 2008-xx, with the xx being a series of numbers 01, 02, 03...) |
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03-10-2013, 11:12 PM
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I played around with this a bit, and, as I feared, my RegEx-fu was not strong enough to get it to work.
Is there any way of pasting a sequence like I described in the post just above, and ignoring the series_index completely? Also, does it change things if the series_index is a whole number? |
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