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Originally Posted by haertig
Does anybody else have a different/simpler way to handle this problem? Or know off the top of their head the plugboard specification that I would need to use? I don't like the manual #altid approach really, nor do I like the programmatic approach because it's just too hard to find an appropriate abbreviation/truncation of a long test string via algorithms. A programmatic approach might end up with something strange like, e.g.,
"Nina Wilde and E... - 01 - The Hunt for Atla..."
So I'm thinking the manual specification approach may be the better of two evils, given that the manual population route would rarely be needed, for most books.
Thanks in advance for any feedback/advice/help!
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If I'm understanding your concerns right:
For something in-between "putting a difficult-to-adjust template in a composite column" and "entering everything manually by hand" I like to use Action Chains' single-field edit to populate the column. (You can also do this with the template mode in search-and-replace.)
Then it can be adjusted as needed. For a few chains, I like to run an ask-at-runtime SFE right after the template'd one so I can check and adjust it right away as needed.