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Originally Posted by nynaevelan
Hi Plugboard Experts:
I am hoping you could help me modify my plugboard so that I can get information that will display fully on my kindle. I currently have the following plugboard:
{tags} - #purchased1 - {#stripped_series:lookup(.\s,#initials,.,#shortene d,series)}{series_index:0>2s| [|] } - {title}
I would like to keep the following plugboard except I would like to be able to set it up so that only the first three letters of the custom column #purchased1 displays. I tried to follow the setup for the stripped series but I am completely lost and I think I've messed something else. Can someone help me set up the shortened #purchased1 column??
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The formatting syntax ".3" will only use the first three characters. You can always use the function
shorten but I doubt you want to, this is so much simpler if all you want is to just use the first x characters.
Using your plugboard, that gets you:
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{tags} - {#purchased1:.3} - {#stripped_series:lookup(.\s,#initials,.,#shortene d,series)}{series_index:0>2s| [|] } - {title}
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I took the liberty of changing the
text "#purchased1" to the
field "#purchased1".
If {#purchased1} is sometimes empty, you may want to use this:
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{tags} - {#purchased1:.3|| - }{#stripped_series:lookup(.\s,#initials,.,#shorten ed,series)}{series_index:0>2s| [|] } - {title}
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to remove the extra " - " that would show up if {#purchased1} is empty.