[dailyalice]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

If you have a specific setup you'd like help with, I'll try.

But I don't even have an AO3 example story with multiple series to look at.

Thanks!

I was at a loss at first to find works to test on until I remembered that Lomonaaeren does a lot of month long series that also include other works in series (even this one that says it's one-shots has several in it): https://archiveofourown.org/series/206045

I know there are other authors whose works I download who frequently have multiple series attached to stories (otherwise I wouldn't bother with this), but of course I couldn't think of them when I was first working on this.

Originally Posted by ILB

I´ve got a column like this (#series_all).
The individual series from AO3 are in columns "Series", "#second_series", "third_series" etc
#series_all is like a collection column from these.

Thanks! I tried this, which looks very similar to something else I tried and I got a bunch of extra commas in my equivalent to your series_all column. (Browsing in the tag browser, that is.)

I think this is what I tried before which didn't result in all those extra commas:

{#series1}{#series2:|,|}{#series3:|,|}{#series4:|,|}

But this still gave me a couple of series in my #series_ao3 column that read like this in the tag browser:
Series One Name,Series Two Name
(as one tag within a category in the tag browser)

That happened any time I had more than one series, basically. The series where works within it were only attached to one series showed up as usual in the column.

I think the other method I tried last night didn't use a composite column at all, I just edited the custom columns in my personal.ini so all the different AO3 columns were sending data to my #series_ao3 column, like this:

add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 series00=>#series_ao3,a
 series01=>#series_ao3,a
 series02=>#series_ao3,a

Yeah, I just tried that method again and got similar results (see attachment).

[Edited to add: I figured this last part out, need to remove the ,a parts. See my next post.]