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Originally Posted by jesscat

I'm not sure I completely understand this? Do you mean that when anthologies are created they don't gather site-specific fields for each story in the URL list, like "bookmarked," which is AO3-specific? So there wouldn't be a way to assign the anthology a "bookmarked" status based on the status of the individual members? Or is this still referring to the AO3 series page information?

I was trying to explain why AO3 series bookmark cannot easily be collected.

While individual story bookmarked values are all collected together in the anthology's bookmarked value, it's a string list of the individual values, eg: "True,False,True" or even "True,True". That's not usable for setting a y/n custom column.

In theory, I could add code to accept a string list of true/false, but it's kinda ambiguous. "True,True"==True is fine, but what about "True,False,True" or "True,False"? For your purposes, you want any "True"=True, but other users may disagree...

Originally Posted by jesscat

Yes, I see. Still, it would be nice to be able to capture those log comments. Could they be recorded in a custom column maybe? I have a column set up to record update errors, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't record the update comments like that, which aren't errors. Though to make it really useful as a record, the column contents would have to be appended each time, not replaced...hmm.

What would that tell you that isn't already recorded better in logfile? I don't see enough utility in it justify a new optional feature for it.

Originally Posted by jesscat

Another series-related question that just occurred to me: is there a way that you can think of to put the title/series name of a series anthology into the "series" column with an designated index - probably of 0 just in case any of the composite stories were also downloaded individually (e.g., {series_name}[0])?

There's a feature "Check for existing Series Anthology books?" on the FFF config Basic tab to warn you if you're trying to download/update a story in a series you already have an anthology of.

Which admittedly doesn't help going the other way--adding a series anthology containing books you already have will not be flagged.

I could add an optional feature to put 'series 0' in an anthology's series, but having "series 0" in the anthology's series field isn't going to help all that much, either. It wouldn't appear until after you made the anthology, and you'd still have to check it manually.