Custom column - Last Chapter

[junni]

Hi there


As the title says, i'm looking for a way to display on a custom column, the name of the last chapter of a book. This is somewhat useful for some on-going fanfics i automatically download which the author doesn't update the "complete" tag, and only writes "END(...)" on the last chapter.
If there is a way to do this, i will be very grateful to whoever can offer a solution.

Best regards

[ownedbycats]

I just have an enumerated (fixed-value text) column with the fanfic status. If a book has the incorrect status I just manually set it to complete.

On the topic of keeping track of read chapters, though: Here's the composite column I use to display chapters:



Caveats: This depends heavily on two things:

1. You use FanFicFare (because the file structure depends on it)
2. You read with a Kobo and use Kobo Utilities' custom column feature. (As such, your column will only update when you connect the device; I do it on a daily basis, so not much a problem for me.)

program:

## You'll need to replace these column names with your own
input = $#kobobookmark;
status = $#fanficstatus;
# Misspelled this because 'count' is a function
ccount = $$#chaptercount;

	if 
## I check my 'fandom' column to see if a book is a fanfic
		$#fanficcat
	then
## This checks that the fanfic has a Kobo bookmark saved
		if	
				substr(input, 0, 10) == 'OEBPS/file'
			&& 	
## I ignore oneshots and FanFicFare anthologies
				!status inlist 'Anthology,Oneshot'

		then		
## Extracts the 'current chapter' from the bookmarks, subtracts 1, and then formats them as 'currentchapno/totalchapno'
			strcat(format_number(re(input, '.*\/file(\d+).*', '\1') - 1, '{0:,d}'), '/',ccount)
		else
			ccount
		fi

## This is some other formatting stuff for other books
	elif
		ccount == 'None'
	then
		'Not Set'

	elif
		ccount >#1
	then
		ccount

	fi

Note that I pause at the beginning of chapters. If you prefer to pause at the end of chapters, you'll prefer this for line 22 to remove the subtraction:

			strcat(format_number(re(input, '.*\/file(\d+).*', '\1'), '{0:,d}'), '/',ccount)