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ElMiko · 10-11-2011, 06:01 PM

I was recently told off by a certain kiwidude for including series information in the title field (eg. HGTTG 01 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Part of my reason for doing this has been to change the way it is displayed on my Kindle. kiwidude, however, kindly informed me that plugboards were the way to achieve that end without turning the Title field into alphabet soup.

Here's the rub: it's not as simple as taking one of the plugboards recipes stickied above which simply extracts series data and inserts it into the Title field upon transfer to the Kindle.

This is what I have now:

Code:

Title:                                  Series:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy        Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1]

What I want is for the Title field on the Kindle to display:

Code:

HGTTG 01 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

What I'm thinking is that I need to create an additional column (let's say, "Abbr Series" (#abbrseries)) and refer to it in the plugboard instead of the regular Series column. I just don't know how to do this. If anybody with more than my two functional brain cells could help me out, I'd be most grateful.

(PS - as per my example, is it possible to make the series number have a leading 0 in the tens place (i.e. display "01, 02, 03,... 10, 11, 12" instead of "1, 2, 3,... 10, 11, 12"?)

10-11-2011, 06:01 PM	#1
ElMiko Evangelist Posts: 480 Karma: 65460 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	Custom Column as Input for Plugboard? I was recently told off by a certain kiwidude for including series information in the title field (eg. HGTTG 01 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Part of my reason for doing this has been to change the way it is displayed on my Kindle. kiwidude, however, kindly informed me that plugboards were the way to achieve that end without turning the Title field into alphabet soup. Here's the rub: it's not as simple as taking one of the plugboards recipes stickied above which simply extracts series data and inserts it into the Title field upon transfer to the Kindle. This is what I have now: Code: Title: Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1] What I want is for the Title field on the Kindle to display: Code: HGTTG 01 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy What I'm thinking is that I need to create an additional column (let's say, "Abbr Series" (#abbrseries)) and refer to it in the plugboard instead of the regular Series column. I just don't know how to do this. If anybody with more than my two functional brain cells could help me out, I'd be most grateful. (PS - as per my example, is it possible to make the series number have a leading 0 in the tens place (i.e. display "01, 02, 03,... 10, 11, 12" instead of "1, 2, 3,... 10, 11, 12"?)