Thread: Plugboard, template, and custom composite column recipes
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Old 12-26-2013, 04:04 AM   #402
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Originally Posted by library addict View Post
I have a simple plugboard for my Kobo mini
{series}{series_index:0>2s| - | - }{title} as destination field title

And it works really well, except with one series where I have a lot of books that are in-betweeners (2.1,3.5, 6.01, etc). There are actual novellas and also deleted scenes and snippets the author posts on her website so there isn't the same number of in-between stories between each novel.

The series displays on my Kobo as:
series name - 01 - title
series name - 02 - title
series name - 03 - title
series name - 04 - title
series name - 05 - title
series name - 06 - title
series name - 07 - title
series name - 08 - title
series name - 09 - title
series name - 10 - title
series name - 10.01 - title
series name - 10.10 - title
series name - 11 - title
series name - 11.10 - title
series name - 11.20 - title
series name - 12 - title
series name - 12.01 - title
series name - 12.10 - title
series name - 2.10 - title
series name - 3.01 - title
series name - 3.50 - title
series name - 3.51 - title
series name - 5.50 - title
series name - 8.50 - title

Is there a way to get the single digit point entries (in red above) to appear in the correct order (add the one leading 0) without making every book in a series include a ".xx" on the end.

I hope that makes sense. I really don't want to change the plugboard to the example {series_index:0>5.2f} as I don't need books by other authors to show as 01.00, 02.00 (with the .xx) It's really just this one author's books I am having an issue with.
Looking at that, the "3.xx" books should be between the "03" and "04" book. If so, the only thing you can do is to pad the number with a leading zero. That would make them "03.xx". The reason for that is the title sorting on the Kobo devices is as a string. The sorting is not looking at the series index in the title and treating it as a number. It is still treating it as a string.

The real solution to this is to convince Kobo to use the series information that they display for sorting. I wouldn't hold your breath, but hopefully they will do it.
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