How Many Empty Books Panel

kakkalla · 06-03-2020, 03:34 AM

I've been using the "How Many Empty Books?" panel lately and have a question about entering multiple books at the one time.

Let's say I am trying to add three empty books which will go in my wish list.
In the "How many empty books should be added?" field, I enter 3.

In the "Set the title of the new books to:" field, I have tried separating the three titles by commas and semi colons but nothing works. For example, if I enter:

Test 1, Test 2, Test 3

in this field, I end up with three empty books, each one having the title "Test 1, Test 2, Test 3".

What is the delimiter I should be using, please?

Thank you.

kovidgoyal · 06-03-2020, 03:45 AM

There's no delimiter, you edit the titles after adding the books.

kakkalla · 06-03-2020, 03:49 AM

Thank you.

Should the wording be changed so that it does not imply that multiple titles can be inserted? So it should read "Set the title of the new book to:" not as it currently reads "…books to:".

Cheers.

kovidgoyal · 06-03-2020, 04:00 AM

its setting the title of all books to the specifed value

06-03-2020, 03:34 AM	#1
kakkalla Zealot Posts: 146 Karma: 194 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Melbourne Device: iPad	How Many Empty Books Panel I've been using the "How Many Empty Books?" panel lately and have a question about entering multiple books at the one time. Let's say I am trying to add three empty books which will go in my wish list. In the "How many empty books should be added?" field, I enter 3. In the "Set the title of the new books to:" field, I have tried separating the three titles by commas and semi colons but nothing works. For example, if I enter: Test 1, Test 2, Test 3 in this field, I end up with three empty books, each one having the title "Test 1, Test 2, Test 3". What is the delimiter I should be using, please? Thank you.

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06-03-2020, 03:45 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,343 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There's no delimiter, you edit the titles after adding the books.

06-03-2020, 03:49 AM	#3
kakkalla Zealot Posts: 146 Karma: 194 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Melbourne Device: iPad	Thank you. Should the wording be changed so that it does not imply that multiple titles can be inserted? So it should read "Set the title of the new book to:" not as it currently reads "…books to:". Cheers.

06-03-2020, 04:00 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,343 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	its setting the title of all books to the specifed value

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