Thread: Help wanted on created a plugboard formula for date
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Old 11-21-2012, 11:46 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by da_jane View Post
I use calibre to update data to my releases.dearauthor.com site and as I was entering books today, I realized that some of my fields could easily be populated by a column from other columns, but I lack the knowledge on how to figure this out.

I'd be happy to pay someone to do this for me but essentially what I want to do is create a plugboard formula that takes the date published and populates another field called pub month. Therefore, if a book is published on August 13, 2013, the pub month field becomes 2013-Aug or something akin to that.

Can anyone help a girl out?
If that is all, No need for a custom column
Preferences: Tweaks:

find the "# Control how dates are displayed" tweak in the List
set this one as shown

gui_pubdate_display_format = 'yyyy-MMM'
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