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Originally Posted by chaley

Sorry, I am confused. Are you trying to put a period in front of all collection category names (e.g. Reihe) or in front of all collection values (e.g. Albion)? And you want this to happen for all collections, regardless of the column from which the collection is built?

I only want to put a "." point in front of a series.
Because the point "." is therefore that I want to set the series at the end of my collections.
The collections made of genres/tags are listed first - without a point in front.

Like:
Fantasy
History
Science-Fiction
.Albion (series)
.Star Wars (series)

Regarding the specific error: you can't put constant text (the period) at that position in a template item. That is where the 'format specification' goes, which tells the formatter how numbers are to be rendered, how many characters to print, etc. Given what you did, my guess is that you want

sony_collection_name_template = '{value} {category:| (.|)}'
sony_collection_renaming_rules = {'series': 'Reihe'}

However, the above will produce "Albion (.Reihe)", so you might want instead

sony_collection_name_template = '{value:|.|} {category:| (|)}'
sony_collection_renaming_rules = {'series': 'Reihe'}

which will produce ".Albion (Reihe)".

This produces also ".Fantasy" ".History"


Maybe it is easier if I say what I want:
1) All collections made from genres should be first
2) At the end I want all series
in my collection list.