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Montana Harper · 10-04-2018, 09:57 PM

Thank you both! I got it working exactly as I wanted.

The documentation is a bit lacking in information about how to use general program mode with custom columns, so I wanted to note—for the benefit of future information seekers—that even though it doesn't look like the program is properly formatted when you paste it from a text editor into the template field when creating a custom column, if it saves properly it should work...assuming the program syntax is correct, of course!

My final template:

Code:

program:
words=raw_field('#words');
length=first_matching_cmp(words,
     1,'UNCOUNTED',
     1001,'Flashfic',
     7500,'Short Story',
     17500,'Novelette',
     40000,'Novella',
     70000,'Short Novel',
     180000,'Novel',
     'Novel Plus')

This flags entries with empty word-count fields as UNCOUNTED, so I know I need to run the Count Pages plugin on them (rather than assigning the label Flashfic to them, which would be incorrect).

10-04-2018, 09:57 PM	#4
Montana Harper book geek (she/her) Posts: 116 Karma: 2029154 Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Pacific Northwest Device: iPhone 16 Pro Max, Kindle Paperwhite (10th gen)	Thank you both! I got it working exactly as I wanted. The documentation is a bit lacking in information about how to use general program mode with custom columns, so I wanted to note—for the benefit of future information seekers—that even though it doesn't look like the program is properly formatted when you paste it from a text editor into the template field when creating a custom column, if it saves properly it should work...assuming the program syntax is correct, of course! My final template: Code: program: words=raw_field('#words'); length=first_matching_cmp(words, 1,'UNCOUNTED', 1001,'Flashfic', 7500,'Short Story', 17500,'Novelette', 40000,'Novella', 70000,'Short Novel', 180000,'Novel', 'Novel Plus') This flags entries with empty word-count fields as UNCOUNTED, so I know I need to run the Count Pages plugin on them (rather than assigning the label Flashfic to them, which would be incorrect).