[meghane_e]

Happy New Year!
OK, I want to do a Bulk Edit/Replace on all of my anthologies to copy the list of individual authors from the authors field to my new column #various_authors. I've been trying to test it on a copy of one of the books. I tried the attached template function statement but nothing happens when I run it. Could I get some help on what it should be?

First step, I made a new column to put a list of authors in for an anthology using the "Ampersand separated text, shown in the Tag browser" choice in the "Preferences -> Make your own column" dialog. It works as expected for adding names manually, copy/pasting, etc. The tag/name manager browser works. Everything looks good.

Second step, I'm stuck on copying all the names to a new field (see the attached). Also what do I need to do to remove the individuals' names from authors, should I write a Template Function or can I still write it in the Metadata Search/Replace?

For future, can someone clarify when and how to use a single-function template {} vs a program: 'function()' in the Edit Metadata browser. I'm not finding the documentation clear on the specific differences using the template language in the Bulk Search/Replace and the Template Function browsers. The template language is the same but the info needed in the surrounding data fields is different. Thank you for any help!