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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
I try to standardized the values 'Completed' and 'In-Progress' for all sites, and those two cover the vast majority.
But there are sites that have additional states. Abandoned, Paused, Cancelled, etc. I don't have a complete list because some adapters use the site text directly.
Unless it's important to you to limit the values, I'd used a free form text field instead.
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Thank you! I thought this might be the case, but wanted to be sure.
I actually have the following bit in the status column section of my guide already from when I was working on it a month ago:
An alternate method to use, which might be good if you know you'll be downloading from multiple archives and think they may have statuses available beyond "Complete" and "In-Progress," would be to go with a simple column like this:
This has no fixed values, when I used this column type with the works I downloaded from AO3, they showed up as "Complete" and "In-Progress." I set a default value of "Unknown" to use when an archive doesn't provide any sort of value for status.
This method probably future proofs the column for if you start downloading from a site that offers more status items or different ones than AO3. You won't have color coded words, but you will have whatever words an archive provides. (Whereas with a fixed set of values, those are the only available options.)
And attached is the screenshot of the column.
I'm working on a major revision to the guide (maybe one day I'll finish it) and I think I'll just use this as the status column suggestion and not bother with the fixed set of values thing. Unless, I suppose, I wanted to demonstrate that column type for some reason. Hmm.
(The guide so far has an AO3 focus, though of course much of it applies elsewhere.)