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Old 02-28-2012, 02:14 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Multics View Post
YEAH!! things look much better. Only one problem left now:

I only want author_sort to contain the first author when there are multiple authors.

More document searching.

I want books with last1, first1 & first1 last1 to strip off anything after last1, first1 for author_sort.
Which solution did you use, "aba" or Pinecone's custom column solution?

If you used "aba", then the solution is to create a new custom column "built from other columns", populate it with the first author by using a template that calls "sublist", then use the "abs" (all by something) feature described in the last post of the thread I mentioned earlier. Use the lookup name of the new custom column as the "name".

If you used Pinecone's solution, then populate the series-like custom column with whatever you want.
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