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Originally Posted by PeterT
Is the [1] actually IN the Abbr Series column, or do you have 1 in the existing field Number?
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If I understand your question correctly, it's in the existing field number. That is to say, it's generated --and, I would imagine, stored-- in exactly the same manner as the default Series column. When I created the custom column "Abbr Series" (#abbrseries), I selected "Text column for keeping series-like information" in the drop-down menu for "Column Type".
@chaley - My mistake on your handle. As I've explained, my series abbreviation are not sufficiently consistent to be generated automatically. I need to designate the abbreviation manually. This is why, in part, the General Metadata plugboard that PeterT referenced in his first post (and then dwanthny reference again in
his first post) doesn't quite accomplish what I'm trying to do. As for making an exercise out of adapting these
almost solutions to fit my goal, I am simply insufficiently knowledgeable to do adapt these expressions myself (as I have tried time and time again to make clear). So, if what I am asking for is impossible, then I'd appreciate it if someone would say so. But telling me how to only
sort of accomplish what I'm asking for is unproductive for both of us: it wastes your time by making you write code that I'm in no position to utilize, and it stresses me out because I can only say "I'm ignorant" so many times.