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BetterRed · 01-17-2016, 02:52 PM

@mariaclaudia - it works fine for me

In my journals library, all authors have a unique value in the Manage Authors author_link field, they are urls to notes in an Evernote database. The value of the author_link remains as it was when I add new 'books' for an existing author

When I add new books to that library I use the 'get metadata from file name' option - i.e. the file name will be something like Anne-Marie Slaughter - A Duty to Prevent.

Can you provide

an example of an author and a couple of books (just the name and titles),
the value you would have in the author's link field
the value would have in the Preferences->Look and Feel->Book Details
what method you use to get the Author name when you add books - from the file name, or from within the book - ie is the first option checked or not

The fact that I have a link to a note in an Evernote database is irrelevant. Before I thought of using links to Evernote Notes, they were links to folders, then they were links to a local web server.

In the Look and Feel field I have search-calibre, but I just did a quick test with the default value (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={author}) and that made no difference.

BR

01-17-2016, 02:52 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,781 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@mariaclaudia - it works fine for me In my journals library, all authors have a unique value in the Manage Authors author_link field, they are urls to notes in an Evernote database. The value of the author_link remains as it was when I add new 'books' for an existing author When I add new books to that library I use the 'get metadata from file name' option - i.e. the file name will be something like Anne-Marie Slaughter - A Duty to Prevent. Can you provide an example of an author and a couple of books (just the name and titles), the value you would have in the author's link field the value would have in the Preferences->Look and Feel->Book Details what method you use to get the Author name when you add books - from the file name, or from within the book - ie is the first option checked or not The fact that I have a link to a note in an Evernote database is irrelevant. Before I thought of using links to Evernote Notes, they were links to folders, then they were links to a local web server. In the Look and Feel field I have search-calibre, but I just did a quick test with the default value (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={author}) and that made no difference. BR