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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Question: using conditionals, is it possible to search for a phrase/phrases in the story description and do a replace_metadata based on them?

You cannot use a conditional for the same metadata entry you are trying to modify--that way lies madness infinite recursion.

But you shouldn't need to, either. It's a pattern match and replace. If it doesn't match, it doesn't replace.

If you want something more complex, we've talked before about making a copy of an entry with .NOREPL. That can be used for conditional.

Originally Posted by watani

So this error message that I got previously has reared its ugly head again. Restarting Calibre doesn't fix the problem.

I've attached the Calibre debug log to see if that helps figure out what's wrong.

I'm not able to replicate that problem and without seeing it myself to experiment with it, I'm unlikely to be able to fix it.

Are you still needing to use browser cache? Because ffnet's been working fine for me with just cloudscraper (on by default).

Originally Posted by Ascello

Is there a way to modify error messages? Not directly, I want to do feed it into new entry and modify that so my calibre error column is cleaner. The only issue is that I don't know how errors are called in .ini, since the obv "error" does not work.

Not in FFF. You could make a custom Calibre column that re-formats/edits a hidden column containing FFF's errors.

Originally Posted by Rei97

So I noticed that when calibre with fanficfare plugin gathers tags meta data, it orders them in alphabetic order and not in the order it is on ao3. I don't know if its the default plugin behaviour or I did something but is there any way to order tags in original order instead?
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Except for author, FFF automatically sorts list type metadata entries.

keep_in_order_* is the correct way to get FFF to not sort them.

However, as I recall, Calibre will order tags type columns even if FFF doesn't. If entries are in the 'correct' order you want in the title page, but are sorted in the Calibre column, you need to change the type of the Calibre column.