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Old 08-04-2017, 10:30 PM   #9
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Maillemom View Post
I can't get it to create a collection. In the kobotouchextended plugin on the collections, covers & uploads I have {author_sort} - {series}. I don't get an error message, the books transfer but the collection doesn't get created.
The "Collections column" only takes column names. You can't use a template there. That's why I suggested using the custom column.
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Do I need to configure this somewhere else?

As suggested I created a custom column but the column display instead of author - series I got author first name, series, author last name, so I can't use that.
The template I suggested for the custom column was "{author_sort} - {series}". That is going to produce something like "Butcher, Jim - The Dresden Files". The way that gets handled by the driver is to split the value at the commas and create a collection for each part. That's working as designed and changing it would probably break a lot of other peoples collections. It might work to change the column type to "Column built from other columns, behaves like tags". I can't think what that will do if there is a comma in the values produced. And I can't test at the moment.

The nearest I can think of quickly is "{author} - {series}". That should produce "Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files", but probably doesn't give the sort order you want.
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