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Originally Posted by chaley
I suspect that it isn't possible without changing the plugin. The problem: depending on the API used, changing the author causes calibre to recompute the author sort. If the plugin sets author after author_sort then the recomputation will overwrite what was set. If my guess is correct then the fix would be for the plugin to ensure that author_sort is always set after author.
The most reliable way to do this is an expansion of what you are already doing. - Clear all values from the sort custom column using bulk metadata edit.
- Run Import list.
- Select all books now having values in the custom column using #column_key:true
- Use bulk metadata edit / search and replace to copy the custom column to the author_sort column.
You could use the Action Chains plugin to do all the above steps in one chain. |
Now that I've got import working reliably and overwriting data the way I want, I think I'm going to just replace the Author column and then tweak the author sort algorithm to include some of the prefixes/suffixes/copywords it's missing and then recompute the values.