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How to join series
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I want to join several series into one new one. All metadata should be stay untouched except series index which is to be rebuilt starting from 1, i. e. series 1 index 1 - 50 series 2 index 1 - 30 ... should lead to new series with index 1 - 50 - 51 - 80 ... How can I achieve that? Best regards mumdigau |
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Use the Tag Bowser to choose BOTH series: Select the first series first,then select the Second second series: Now Select all in the List (ctrl-a) Launch Manage Series. Fix the series name at the top if needed. Review the proposed index numbers (they should be mostly in order) : reordering as needed, pad with empty books or lock spefic numbers. Apply when ready ![]() |
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series1 index 1 series2 index 1 series3 index 1 ... series1 index 2 series2 index 2 series3 index 2 ... But I'd like to have them one series after the other: series1 index 1 series1 index 2 ... series2 index 1 series2 index 2 ... series3 index 1 series3 index2 ... The Plugin offers the possibility to manually move books up and down, but with more than 2.500 books this isn't really an option. If I could order the books alphabetically I'd be there, but I don't see this possibility in the Plugin. There is only a 'Sort by Original Series', but after marking all books and clicking on it nothing happens? Any other idea? Best regards mumdigau |
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Get really really really really really good at REGEX
![]() and use the Search and replace tab on the bulk metadata edit form. Or do smaller chunks, you CAN set the starting number each chunk, it does not have to be 1 ![]() |
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Nevertheless, thanks for your help. BTW, I recently switched to hierarchical structures (via user definde tags) in the tag browser. Do you think that my planned reorganisation of some book series could somehow destroy these structures? Best regards mumdigau |
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@mumdigau - I've been trying to decide if it is a "bug" or just a missing feature in the Manage Series plugin. I am swaying towards the latter. The way the sorting works at the moment is that it sorts primarily by the index value followed by the series name, hence the behaviour you see above.
Why does it do that and not series name before the index? It is because a common usage of the plugin is to get series names consistent, particularly after a metadata download where different sources may have different names for the series but give the correct same series index value. So if you had "The Foo [1]" and "Foo [2]" then when you open the dialog you want to see them sorted in order of 1 then 2, not alphabetically "Foo" then "The Foo". However in your case your starting point means that you want it the other way around. I think what I should do is change "Sort by Original Series", so that there are now now options - "Sort by Original Series Index" (what it does now, and the default behaviour) and "Sort by Original Series Name" (which is what you want). |
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