[Snow Sciles]

chaley, when using strcmp, is it correct to leave the "It" value blank?

strcmp(
    current_library_name(), 
    'Fanfiction Library', 
    '', 
    sublist(field('#fandom'), 0, 1, ','), 
    field('authors')
)

eschwartz, your enthusiasm has convinced me to try program mode.

There are two things I'm going try. The first is to create a function that controls the author link in Book Details.

Here is what I've mustered so far

program:

default = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={author}";
ao3     = "http://archiveofourown.org/works/search?work_search[creator]={author}";
ffnet   = "https://www.fanfiction.net/search.php?keywords={author}&ready=1&type=writer";

author_lookup = 

        first_matching_cmp(
           field('publisher'),
           'archiveofourown.org',
           ao3,
           'fanfiction.net',
           ffnet,
           default
        );

This works on books that have ao3 or ffnet as publisher. But for those that do not, instead of seeing the default wikipedia link, I get "Could not convert string to float: No such variable publisher".

I don't know what's wrong. I did expect to have to print author_lookup but it seems to work regardless, or perhaps first_match_cmp isn't a good function to use?


The second thing that I'm going to try, is column colouring. I've used the rules method, but Calibre became sluggish. I read this a known consequence of too many rules, so I limited things to only colouring the Title rather than All. Before I try, I want to know if doing it in program mode would prevent that sluggishness?