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Originally Posted by chaley
@Starson17: I first tried to do this in SQL directly against the database, but failed because some of the triggers refer to python functions.
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Yes, I've run into the triggers. too. I was thinking it would be done through Python/Calibre, not directly.
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In addition, that process would break any 'non-standard' author_sort settings one has made.
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As a matter of interest, what 'non-standard' author_sort settings do you use?
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The way I did it permits one to select the books to change, open the bulk metadata editor, check the "Automatically set author sort" while leaving the author field empty, then 'run'.
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It just seems to me that using an environment variable for this feature is different from the way most of the other optional user functionality is implemented.