Only create Kobo shelves with minimum number of items

[shinykari]

Is it possible to tell the Kobo to only create a shelf if it would contain X or more books? Either in the Kobo's preferences or in Calibre's?

A few more details: I use Calibre to manage my library, and have a custom column that pulls data from multiple other columns that I use to create the Shelves on Kobo. This is great, most of the time, but there are a few tags that it pulls in that only appear on one or two books. This creates soooo many shelves that are basically useless!

[JSWolf]

It's not shelves. It's collections.

[JSWolf]

Create a column for your collections that are not series.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Create a column for your collections that are not series.

Did you read the post? That's exactly what the OP did.

[shinykari]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Did you read the post? That's exactly what the OP did.

Thanks, Sirtel. Creating collections/shelves is not the problem.

I see there's a "Collections Template" option, but it looks like that might just be for transforming the data and renaming collections/shelves.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by shinykari

Thanks, Sirtel. Creating collections/shelves is not the problem.

I see there's a "Collections Template" option, but it looks like that might just be for transforming the data and renaming collections/shelves.

Edit the custom column to remove these tags you don't want to have as a collection. That should solve the problem of those few tags.

[Nikoz]

I used to do exactly that on my kindle, kindle collections manager had an option to create shelves only if X books would be in it. Sadly it doesn't appear that Kobotouch has the same option. Maybe the filter can be applied when you build your custom column? I don't know enough about the language to know if that's something that can be done in the template.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It's not shelves. It's collections.

Jesus... ever considered not posting every irrelevant thing that goes through your head?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Nikoz

Jesus... ever considered not posting every irrelevant thing that goes through your head?

It matters because when searching for collections, shelves will not allow the thread and/or post to be found.

[shinykari]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Edit the custom column to remove these tags you don't want to have as a collection. That should solve the problem of those few tags.

That is not an option. I want to keep the tags for categorization purposes in Calibre, and anyway, manually removing dozens of tags is not feasible.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by shinykari

That is not an option. I want to keep the tags for categorization purposes in Calibre, and anyway, manually removing dozens of tags is not feasible.

It's either edit the tags or deal with excess columns.

[hatuluang]

I always edit the tags to a maximum of ten tags. So they are put nicely on one page on My Kobo Clara 2E

[Terisa de morgan]

I don't think there is an option for that, neither in the driver nor in calibre itself out of the box (we are talking about entries through the library, not a book, that is where the templates work). The only thing I can think is, if you now the troublesome tags in advance, to create a second custom column where those few tags are not include, and using this second column to create the shelves/collections/whatever...

[Katja_hbg]

In the kobotouchextended is an option for creating collection by a template. I use it to suppress specific entries e.g. use genre to ceate collection but do not show the value "shortstorry".
With the correct coding, it maybe be possible to use it for your purpose.... perhaps.

[shinykari]

Originally Posted by Katja_hbg

In the kobotouchextended is an option for creating collection by a template. I use it to suppress specific entries e.g. use genre to ceate collection but do not show the value "shortstorry".
With the correct coding, it maybe be possible to use it for your purpose.... perhaps.

Katja, do you mind sharing what you put in the template field to make that work?

[Katja_hbg]

here is mine:
program:
# Remove tags listed in tags_to_ignore
tags_to_ignore = 'danach, leicht';
list_join(':@:',
list_difference($tags, tags_to_ignore, ','), ',',
list_difference($#rreadingpool, tags_to_ignore, ','), ',')

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