Templates: various questions not worth their own thread

[retro]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

also forgot to close parenthis, here:

{#star:finish_formatting(,, | )}{#pages:finish_formatting(,Pages: , | )}{tags:| | }

YES!!! It works just like it should! Thank you sooooo much!

[ownedbycats]

When I view composite column with this template in list view, the first entry preceded by a comma. (Doesn't appear in book details or template tester.) Any idea why?

program:	

subjects = $#subjects;
admintags = $#admintags;

	new_colls = strcat(	
		if $#booktype=='Fanfiction' then 'Fanfiction, ' fi,
		if '^Mystery|Cozy Mystery$' inlist subjects then 'Mysteries, ' fi,
		if '(Juvenile|Young Adult)' inlist subjects then 'Juvenile & Young Adults, ' fi,
		if '^(Fantasy|Paranormal|Science Fiction)$' inlist subjects && !'Star Trek' inlist subjects then 'Fantasy & Sci-Fi, ' fi,
		if '^Star Trek$' inlist subjects then 'Star Trek, ' fi,
		if 'Omnibus' in admintags then 'Omnibuses, ' fi,
	);

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

When I view composite column with this template in list view, the first entry preceded by a comma. (Doesn't appear in book details or template tester.) Any idea why?

program:	

subjects = $#subjects;
admintags = $#admintags;

	new_colls = strcat(	
		if $#booktype=='Fanfiction' then 'Fanfiction, ' fi,
		if '^Mystery|Cozy Mystery$' inlist subjects then 'Mysteries, ' fi,
		if '(Juvenile|Young Adult)' inlist subjects then 'Juvenile & Young Adults, ' fi,
		if '^(Fantasy|Paranormal|Science Fiction)$' inlist subjects && !'Star Trek' inlist subjects then 'Fantasy & Sci-Fi, ' fi,
		if '^Star Trek$' inlist subjects then 'Star Trek, ' fi,
		if 'Omnibus' in admintags then 'Omnibuses, ' fi,
	);

Same template in KoboTouch driver collection management also messes up the colllections, "Fantasy & Sci-Fi,Omnibuses"

[dunhill]

Let's see try this:

program:
subjects = $#subjects;
admintags = $#admintags;

new_colls = list_join(', ',
    if $#booktype=='Fanfiction' then 'Fanfiction' fi,
    if '^Mystery|Cozy Mystery$' inlist subjects then 'Mysteries' fi,
    if '(Juvenile|Young Adult)' inlist subjects then 'Juvenile & Young Adults' fi,
    if '^(Fantasy|Paranormal|Science Fiction)$' inlist subjects && !'Star Trek' inlist subjects then 'Fantasy & Sci-Fi' fi,
    if '^Star Trek$' inlist subjects then 'Star Trek' fi,
    if 'Omnibus' in admintags then 'Omnibuses' fi
);

[ownedbycats]

I had to add a ',' to the end of each line but it worked! thank you

[Subtext]

I have a Cover generator template question, I hope it's okay to ask here.

I have a custom column called #chapters, it shows up as #/#. I have books that are multiple books merged into one and those have multiple #chapter entries (so it shows as #/#, #/# etc.). I would like to have a line to show the chapters number but only if there is only one entry there, and blank if there is more than one. Is that possible? I tried to find out but I haven't managed to make heads or tails of it.

Thank you in advance either way!

[theducks]

Assumes these are tag type (comma separated, not just text with commas

#chapters:#=1

[Subtext]

Originally Posted by theducks

Assumes these are tag type (comma separated, not just text with commas

#chapters:#=1

Thank you for taking a look at this.
Yes, they are tag type but when I try {#chapters:#=1} I get the message "Template error '=' alignment not allowed in string format specifier.

Any idea?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Subtext

Thank you for taking a look at this.
Yes, they are tag type but when I try {#chapters:#=1} I get the message "Template error '=' alignment not allowed in string format specifier.

Any idea?

No { } when searching

[Subtext]

Originally Posted by theducks

No { } when searching

Thank you for helping!!
That was not quite what I meant but I did explain it kinda badly, sorry.
Ended up having a discord buddy write the code for me for what I wanted to do in the cover generator, so it worked out in the end!

[ownedbycats]

Is a way to get round() to always round up or down??

[DNSB]

You may want to look at the math.ceil and math.floor functions.

[ownedbycats]

Thank you

[Katja_hbg]

Is there any change to first_matching_cmp?
I used this since ...long time without any issue.

But Kobo Utilities do not accept it anymore with "could not convert string to float".
Reading the reference it should never work - but it did and still work perfect in the GUI in a column.

Or is this a Kobo Utilities issue?
I am also open for help in template language to get the same result.

{#author_book_count:'first_matching_cmp(1,$,'books ','book')'}

[ownedbycats]

Template changes here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=337573

I'd ask in the Kobo Utilities thread as well: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=366110