Okay a few example where a cross field thing can help:
Example 1:
Title contains: Hello world (by Smart Author)
Author contains: World series
Series contains:
Example 2:
Title contains: BookSeries 1 Hello world
Author contains: Smart Author
Series contains:
But if I think about, it can almost be solved by having an option to copy the field accross, and then using the existing mechanism to clean it up.
No real need for extending the regexp, just a selection for a target field would do.
What I found out using the new feature, it just enabled me to do things in seconds, that I did not want to do, just because the amount of work involved.
For instance, I just harmonized the case over all titles to an uppercase on each word, and changed 'S back to 's. This was previously, just too much work.
May be this thing is like wise. The attention from users for the regexp used to add books proves at least proves at least that I am not the only person fighting with the metadata.
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