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Originally Posted by rishidiams
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1 - Occasionally on AO3 someone will list a relationship but not include those characters in the character list.
This is one example I am currently banging my head over:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/6222439
The problem I am having with this is two-fold.
a) In these instances, I want to include those characters in my Characters column in Calibre. I've managed to split the relationship into two separate entries and both appear when I go to the Custom Columns tab, Characters entry and select Relationships, but I can't make them appear when I select Characters instead. Leaving that drop down box empty results in no data appearing at all.
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b) I wish to have "Tenth Doctor" renamed to The Doctor.Tenth, but it does not work when splitting a relationship.
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2 - I'd like to remove one category if another one appears. In other words, if the freeformtags include "Alternate Universe.Human", I would like to remove the redundant tag "Alternate Universe" if it also exists. |
You should have a leading comma(,) in
add_to_extra_valid_entries, otherwise mycharacters will be falsely concatenated with whatever is before it. That, I believe, is why it isn't showing up in your custom column.
Code:
[defaults]
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,mycharacters,mytags,mystatus
You are splitting
ships, when I suspect you mean to be splitting mycharacters:
Code:
[defaults]
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replace_metadata:
mycharacters=>(.*)[/&](.*)=>\1 \, \2
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"Tenth Doctor" isn't becoming "The Doctor.Tenth" for you because you are looking for
exactly "Tenth Doctor", which isn't going to match " Tenth Doctor " (note spaces added when you did the mycharacters split) or the Doctor part of "Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler". Instead I suggest limiting it to mycharacters and ships only, and allowing for "The " in front of it so you don't end up with "The The Doctor.Tenth":
Code:
replace_metadata:
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mycharacters,ships=>(The )?Tenth Doctor=>The Doctor.Tenth
As for freeformtags "Alternate Universe.Human" vs "Alternate Universe", that's tricky. If you wanted to remove "Alternate Universe.Human" in favor of keeping "Alternate Universe" it would be easy. I can't find a AO3 story by searching for such a tag. Can you provide an example?
All changes together: