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@BetterRed: Thanks for helping.
I try to rephrase what I understood:
I create a "ghost book" for each series. The "ghost book" gets the Series Number "0".
I create custom [fields]. I use the "ghost book" within each series to asign series values like [series rating] or [series description].
I define the "book details" to show the fields like [series rating] and [series description].
I have four question:
(1) As the fields are empty for "regular books" of the series. As the view shows the content of the metadata associated with a book - if I have "book 2" of "seriesXYZ" selected, how is it possible, that the book details would show values of "book 0" of "seriesXYZ"?
(2) If I would like to sort my series based on a value like [series: rating] - how is it possible that the series actually get sorted? I would expect, that the books get sorted and not the series?
(If I have 2k books and 400 series I get 400 books with values of 1-5 and 1.6 k books with value "0". Let's say I want to generate a search with all books from all series with [series: rating]="4")
(3) If I would like to find series with a certain value in [series: description] - lets say I'm searching for the value "complete". I would expect to only get the "ghost books" of the [n] series which has the value "complete". But how to get the other books of the [n] series?!?
(Lets say the "main window shows the columns [author], [series], [series: rating] [series: description]. After the search for the value "complete" in the field [series: description] the main window would - lets say - show 100 series / rows / entries (as 100 of my 400 series are "complete").
(4) How do I get back to the actual books of a specific series. How do I get back to lets say "book 2" from "seriesXYZ"? ---- simply by using the value for [series] from the book details as link? Would that do the trick?
If I understand correctly - I can create "ghost books" to store "series related information". I can manage series by managing this "ghost books". It is not possible to show all books related to a specific "series related information" (like [series: rating]="4").
Did I understand you correct?
Henning
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