Plugboard, template, and custom composite column recipes

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

IIRC this field is updated when setting emtadata, which happens whenever a book is exported from the library. (and the update is only applied to exported copy, of course).

Are you saying the setting in Preferences - Conversions - Mobi Output controls this as eschwartz indicated?

[kovidgoyal]

Yes .

[alphane]

Hello

Never having used pluckboard, I tried a very simple one and it won't work.

So it is, save-to-disk for format epub
Template : {title}{serie:| (|)}
Destination : title

I save my epub to disk and I get ... {title} as title !

So, why is it working for anyone but me ? What can I do ? test ?

Thank you for any help

[Dethmaul]

Originally Posted by alphane

Hello

Never having used pluckboard, I tried a very simple one and it won't work.

So it is, save-to-disk for format epub
Template : {title}{serie:| (|)}
Destination : title

I save my epub to disk and I get ... {title} as title !

So, why is it working for anyone but me ? What can I do ? test ?

Thank you for any help

Try This:
{title} - {series:||} - {series_index:0>2s|[|]}

Should get this result:
Title - Series - [Series#] or
Book - Book Series - [01]

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by alphane

Never having used pluckboard, I tried a very simple one and it won't work.

So it is, save-to-disk for format epub
Template : {title}{serie:| (|)}
Destination : title

I save my epub to disk and I get ... {title} as title !

Plugboards are for changing the metadata inside the book on the fly not for altering the filename. The template under Preferences - Saving books to disk is used to alter the filenames when saving books.

[alphane]

Originally Posted by DoctorOhh

Plugboards are for changing the metadata inside the book on the fly not for altering the filename. The template under Preferences - Saving books to disk is used to alter the filenames when saving books.

Obviously I explained badly ... I said that the (metadata) title in the epub is not what I wanted it to be. Not the filename which is fine.

Could you help me with that? What test to perform to find what the problem is ?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by alphane

Obviously I explained badly ... I said that the (metadata) title in the epub is not what I wanted it to be. Not the filename which is fine.

Could you help me with that? What test to perform to find what the problem is ?

The plugboard is used to insert additional stuff into the designated field (Title in this case). This fakes the device into thinking that is the title while maintaining proper metadata in your Calibre Library

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by DoctorOhh

Plugboards are for changing the metadata inside the book on the fly not for altering the filename. The template under Preferences - Saving books to disk is used to alter the filenames when saving books.

The OP indicated using a plugboard (for epubs using save-to-disk), though. So that shouldn't be a problem.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by alphane

Hello

Never having used pluckboard, I tried a very simple one and it won't work.

So it is, save-to-disk for format epub
Template : {title}{serie:| (|)}
Destination : title

I save my epub to disk and I get ... {title} as title !

So, why is it working for anyone but me ? What can I do ? test ?

Thank you for any help

You misspelled "series" as "serie", can I assume you got it correct in the plugboard?

You can test your plugboard by creating a custom column of type = built from other columns (exact wording I forget, I'd check if I wasn't typing from my Kindle ) and filling in the template there.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

You misspelled "series" as "serie", can I assume you got it correct in the plugboard?

You can test your plugboard by creating a custom column of type = built from other columns (exact wording I forget, I'd check if I wasn't typing from my Kindle ) and filling in the template there.

Good catch
the field name must be the correct one.
Hover the mouse over the column header for the lookup name to use

[alphane]

You misspelled "series" as "serie", can I assume you got it correct in the plugboard?

You can test your plugboard by creating a custom column of type = built from other columns (exact wording I forget, I'd check if I wasn't typing from my Kindle ) and filling in the template there.

You are right eschwartz, there was a mistake in my post. But there wasn't in my plugboard, this is the copy/paste I should have done (stupid of me not to have before) :
template = {title} {series:} destination = title
It's so simple, but anyway I did test it (copy/paste) in custom column

Sorry to have misled you. But this is not the problem.
When I open the book I saved on the disk with E-book Viewer and look for information, I can see only my calibre {title} in the title of the book : not {title} & {series}.

So the template is not wrong. Is there a way to test why it doesn't apply to the saved epub ?

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The OP indicated using a plugboard (for epubs using save-to-disk), though. So that shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for stating the obvious. The most common error is misunderstanding what you are using, hence my suggestion.

Originally Posted by alphane

template = {title} {series:} destination = title
...
So the template is not wrong. Is there a way to test why it doesn't apply to the saved epub ?

You keep giving us the Template and Destination, but you fail to give us format and device. Have you selected Format: ePub an Device: save_to_disk? Also did you save the plugboard?

[crich70]

Is there a way to use the plugboard to add the # of pages in a book so that it shows up in the catalog when you make a catalog of the books that you have loaded into Calibre? Count pages works fine but I want to be able to save the data generated by that plug in to the catalog along with the other stuff.

[tilia]

You need to make a new column.

Set the column type to 'Column built from other columns' and in the template put

{#pages}

Change #pages to the name of your original page-count column of course.

Then you can choose this new column either in Extra Description Note or in Merge with Comments when you generate the catalogue.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by tilia

You need to make a new column.

Set the column type to 'Column built from other columns' and in the template put

{#pages}

Change #pages to the name of your original page-count column of course.

Then you can choose this new column either in Extra Description Note or in Merge with Comments when you generate the catalogue.

Neat. thanks for the tip.