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Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Hi.

When I save Books to disk with a comma separated tag column the output isn't sorted alphabetically when there's more than one tag in the column.

What's in the column in Calibre:

Angel The Series, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly

What it becomes in the folder on my computer:

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Angel The Series

You can sort the column like:

{tags:list_sort(0,\,)}

This is my template for saving to disk. I know the tmp1 and tmp2 is the same one but I don't know how to remove one of the them and still keep the rest of it intact.

program: tmp1 = template('{#parent_fandom}/{#meta_fandom}/{#story_id}/{author} - {title}'); tmp2 = template('{#parent_fandom}/{#meta_fandom}/{#story_id}/{author} - {title}'); tmp3 = template('_ Multiple Crossovers/{#story_id}/{author} - {title}'); cmp(count(field('#meta_fandom'), ','), 3, re(re(tmp1,': ',' '),',',', '), re(re(tmp2,': ',' '),',',', '), tmp3)

I hope someone can help me, or at least clarify if it's a bug or normal in Calibre?

I had to reformat it to read it properly, but the following should be the same.

program:
tmp1 = template('{#parent_fandom}/{#meta_fandom}/{#story_id}/{author} - {title}');
tmp1 = re(re(tmp1,': ',' '),',',', ');
tmp3 = template('_ Multiple Crossovers/{#story_id}/{author} - {title}'); 
cmp(
	count(field('#meta_fandom'), ','),
	3, 
	tmp1,
	tmp1,
	tmp3
	)

And assuming the two fandom columns are the lists that need to be sorted, I'd probably rewrite it as:

program:
tmp1 = template('{#parent_fandom:list_sort(0,\,)}/{#meta_fandom:list_sort(0,\,)}');
tmp1 = re(re(tmp1,': ',' '),',',', ');
tmp4 = cmp(
	count(field('#meta_fandom'), ','),
	3, 
	tmp1,
	tmp1,
	'_ Multiple Crossovers'
	);
strcat(tmp4, template('/{#story_id}/{author} - {title}'))

But, I can't test that as I don't have the appropriate columns.