Need a little help with saving to disk

[svda]

I'm using this template :
{author_sort}/{title}/{author_sort} - [{series} {series_index:0>3s}] {title}

But that doesn't look nice when the book has no series.
example : Thiesler, Sabine - [ ] Bewusstlos
How can I tune this so that if series = null, it won't show series information ?

Even better would be that if there is no series it would write the publishing date

example : Thiesler, Sabine - (2012) Bewusstlos

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by svda

I'm using this template :
{author_sort}/{title}/{author_sort} - [{series} {series_index:0>3s}] {title}

But that doesn't look nice when the book has no series.
example : Thiesler, Sabine - [ ] Bewusstlos
How can I tune this so that if series = null, it won't show series information ?

The below will eliminate the brackets when there is no series/

{series:| [|] } {series_index:0>3s}

[svda]

Thankyou DoctorOhh !!!!!

I tuned it some more to :
{author_sort}/{title}/{author_sort} - {series:| [| {series_index:0>3}] } {pubdate} {title}

Now I get :

Kellerman, Jonathan - [Alex Delaware 001] (2012) Blackout.epub
and
Fitzek, Sebastian - (2008) Der Seelenbrecher.epub

Which is quite a nice result!

I noticed however that when no pubdate is available, I get (101)

Fitzek, Sebastian - (101) Das Kind.epub

So very happy already. If I could get it to show the pubdate only when there is no series, that would be awesome.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by svda

I noticed however that when no pubdate is available, I get (101)

Fitzek, Sebastian - (101) Das Kind.epub

So very happy already. If I could get it to show the pubdate only when there is no series, that would be awesome.

FWIW 1/1/101 is the 'unassigned' date for datetypes

[eschwartz]

Use general program mode:

PHP Code:

program:

    strcat(
        template("{author_sort}/{title}/{author_sort} - {series:|[|}"),
        ifempty(
            finish_formatting(
                field('series_index'),
                '0>3',
                ' ',
                '] '
            ),
            finish_formatting(
                format_date(
                    field('pubdate'),
                    'yyyy'),
                '',
                ' (',
                ')'
            )
        )
) 


[Divingduck]

I use this one.

{author_sort}/{author_sort}{series:| - |} {series_index:0>2s} - {title} {tags:| (|, } {languages:||, } {:'format_date(raw_field('pubdate'),'yyyy')'||)}

It will create a Author_sort Directory and save each file as
Author_sort - Series - Series No - Titel (Tag, ... ,languages, ... , Pubdate)

You only need to fix your "[" "]" and number of digits.

[svda]

Thanks so much everyone. Gonna try this tomorrow and I will let you know! :-)

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

I use this one.

{author_sort}/{author_sort}{series:| - |} {series_index:0>2s} - {title} {tags:| (|, } {languages:||, } {:'format_date(raw_field('pubdate'),'yyyy')'||)}

It will create a Author_sort Directory and save each file as
Author_sort - Series - Series No - Titel (Tag, ... ,languages, ... , Pubdate)

You only need to fix your "[" "]" and number of digits.

Mine doesn't show the pubdate unless series doesn't exist, which is what I think the OP wants.

[Divingduck]

You are right, I had overlook that detail.

[svda]

Here's my feedback :
@Divingduck, your template only shows the right ")" and is not condtional
I'm experimenting a bit with my brackets, but I'm still not there.


@eschwarz, your solution is missing the {title} at the end of the string I want to write.
Otherwise, perfect! Haven't found out yet where to put the last {title}

I'm trying to learn from the examples I get, so thanks to both of you.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by svda

Here's my feedback :

...

@eschwarz, your solution is missing the {title} at the end of the string I want to write.
Otherwise, perfect! Haven't found out yet where to put the last {title}

I'm trying to learn from the examples I get, so thanks to both of you.

Whoops, sorry. Here, I've added it:

PHP Code:

program:
    strcat(
        template("{author_sort}/{title}/{author_sort} - {series:|[|}"),
        ifempty(
            finish_formatting(
                field("series_index"),
                '0>3',
                ' ',
                '] '
            ),
            finish_formatting(
                format_date(
                    field('pubdate'),
                    'yyyy'),
                '',
                ' (',
                ') '
            )
        ),
        field('title')
) 


At the end, I added one more entry to strcat, the final field('title').

(I also fixed an error where the date didn't have a space appended to separate it from the title.)

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If you are trying to learn how this all works, a good resource is the calibre manual entry on templates, which also lists the different functions available. See here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html and ask questions if you need help understanding how it all works!

[Divingduck]

@svda, this is possible, but only if you had no tags for your books. This is a situation I do not have for both tags and pubdate.

The example I gave use "(" by starting with a tag and ")" by ending with pubdate
You can modify it e.g. this way to have only the year in

{author_sort}/{author_sort}{series:| - |} {series_index:0>2s} - {title} {tags:| |, } {languages:||, } {:'format_date(raw_field('pubdate'),'yyyy')'|(|)}

But if you need condtional, then it is better to use the code from eschwartz.

[svda]

I must say I am really very impressed with both of your knowledge and help. Many thanks!

@eschwartz : tried and approved!
@Divingduck : going to try yours out also ...

[svda]

How do you guys trap missing dates (pubdate) ?

[Divingduck]

I am using different data sources like author or publisher's webpage, wiki, library services like dnb.de (for German books), isbn.com plugin and the book itself (especially before updating these data in a book). Sometimes it is difficultly to get accurate metadata, e.g. for historical books like here at MR, Gutenberg … if a contributor does not name the exact source of a digitalized text for an ebook