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Old 11-05-2018, 01:56 PM   #11
chaley
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
Interesting. I don't think I've used either. Which plugin should one install to calculate the values of a template and save that to a custom column? Or would both of them work?
Neither of the plugins I referenced would do that. You (or someone) would need to write a new plugin that does something like the following:

For each book in the library:
  1. Evaluates a template supplied in the plugin parameters against the book.
  2. Compares the resulting string against the contents of the custom column specified in the parameters.
  3. If different, update the custom column with the new data.
Tomorrow I will take a look at how much work it is. I suspect that there are easy cases, but that there will be problems when the source and destination aren't identical types.
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