Help with 'Send to Disk' template

[Kaimeirra]

Hi, I would like some help with my file naming template plz. I would like books with series to appear as:

Author (Series #03.00) Title

and books with no series to appear as:

Author - Title

The template I have work out so far is:

{authors} {series:ifempty(-)|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {title}

which makes books with series appear correctly BUT books with out a series appear as:

Author (- Title

this is due to the prefix in 'series' appearing before the command 'ifempty' for some reason, and I cant get my head around how else to place the 'ifempty' or another command to use..

ALL HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED

ps: I know I can choose to have the file names all different/simpler but my aim of this post is to see if its possible to do as stated above.

[Divingduck]

{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {series:ifempty(-)} {title}

[Kaimeirra]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {series:ifempty(-)} {title}

Thankyou for the reply, I have tryed that template and the problem is that it works for those with out a series but for those with a series, it then displayes the series name twice..

[Divingduck]

Oh, my fault...

This one should work like you want

program:
contains(ifempty(field('series'),'-'),'-',template('{authors} - {title}'),template('{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {title}'));

Remark:
Its working in program mode.
I check for series and give back series or '-' if there is no series.
contains check for '-' and use then one of the two template structures.

Not elegant but works.

Edit: Forgot to mention that you need to copy the complete string (both lines) in your template. You can do this direct or via the template editor

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

Oh, my fault...

This one should work like you want

program:
contains(ifempty(field('series'),'-'),'-',template('{authors} - {title}'),template('{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {title}'));

Remark:
Its working in program mode.
I check for series and give back series or '-' if there is no series.
contains check for '-' and use then one of the two template structures.

Not elegant but works.

Edit: Forgot to mention that you need to copy the complete string (both lines) in your template. You can do this direct or via the template editor

Looking at your code, I suspect that it will write all the books into a single directory instead of the default Author_Sort directories inside the selected Save to directory.

I suspect adding {author_sort}/ to the templates between the ' and the {author} would return to the default saving into author_sort folders.

program:
contains(ifempty(field('series'),'-'),'-',template('{author_sort}/{authors} - {title}'),template('{author_sort}/{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f||)} {title}'));

Serial numbers filed off and saved for future reference....

[Divingduck]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Looking at your code, I suspect that it will write all the books into a single directory instead of the default Author_Sort directories inside the selected Save to directory.

Yes, because that was what Kaimeirra ask for at #1

Feel free to modify the code to your personal flavor/needs. It's only a example and improvements are welcome

I found a lot of inspirations in the sticky post Plugboard, template, and custom composite column recipes where @chaley, @eschwartz and a lot of users showing their interesting solutions using the calibre template language. It was worth every minute I spend for reading this thread over the years.

[Kaimeirra]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

Oh, my fault...

This one should work like you want

program:
contains(ifempty(field('series'),'-'),'-',template('{authors} - {title}'),template('{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {title}'));

Remark:
Its working in program mode.
I check for series and give back series or '-' if there is no series.
contains check for '-' and use then one of the two template structures.

Not elegant but works.

Edit: Forgot to mention that you need to copy the complete string (both lines) in your template. You can do this direct or via the template editor

PERFECT! Works exactly as I asked
Thanks for the concern about the folders DNSB, I am using folder sorting as well but as I knew how to add that I didnt include it in the coding I was asking help for. So this is what I am using:

program:
contains(ifempty(field('series'),'-'),'-',template('{author_sort}/{authors} - {title}'),template('{author_sort}/{series}/{authors} {series:|(| }#{series_index:0>5.2f||)} {title}'));

Sorry I dont know how to put it in a code: box

Thanks again for everyones help!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

Yes, because that was what Kaimeirra ask for at #1

Feel free to modify the code to your personal flavor/needs. It's only a example and improvements are welcome

I found a lot of inspirations in the sticky post Plugboard, template, and custom composite column recipes where @chaley, @eschwartz and a lot of users showing their interesting solutions using the calibre template language. It was worth every minute I spend for reading this thread over the years.

I took it that his template attempts were for the filename used for the saved book and not for modifying the save to directory structure as well. Personally, I would prefer not to have 8000 or so ebooks with cover images and metadata files in one directory hence my suggested modification.

Edit: Again bitten by replying before reading the complete thread.

And yes, that thread is a great source of information. Together with the regex threads for Calibre and Sigil, among my favourite resources on Mobileread.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Kaimeirra

PERFECT! Works exactly as I asked
Thanks for the concern about the folders DNSB, I am using folder sorting as well but as I knew how to add that I didnt include it in the coding I was asking help for. So this is what I am using:

program:
contains(ifempty(field('series'),'-'),'-',template('{author_sort}/{authors} - {title}'),template('{author_sort}/{series}/{authors} {series:|(| }#{series_index:0>5.2f||)} {title}'));

Sorry I dont know how to put it in a code: box

Thanks again for everyones help!

Highlight the text and click on the # (code) icon. If you are editing a message, you need to click go advanced.

Good to hear that you are a happy camper.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {series:ifempty(-)} {title}

This single-function-mode template gives what the OP asked for:

{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {series:test(,  - )} {title}

Using "test" instead of "ifempty" lets us output an empty string when the series is not empty, otherwise a hyphen.

[Divingduck]

@chaley, this one is elegant. Thanks

[Kaimeirra]

Originally Posted by chaley

This single-function-mode template gives what the OP asked for:

{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:0>5.2f|#|)} {series:test(,  - )} {title}

Using "test" instead of "ifempty" lets us output an empty string when the series is not empty, otherwise a hyphen.

Wow, certainly is simple, elegant and still does exactly what Im after

I have another piece I would like some help with. Not sure if I should be starting a new thread or if Im right to continue here..

I would like my book series index to appear as:

#01 and #01.5 when I have .x in the series

at the moment I am using

{series_index:0>5.2f|#|}

which gives #01.00, so is there a way to have no trailing zeros but have the decimal and number after it appear if they exist?

[chaley]

{series_index:'re(format_number($, '05.2f'), '\.00', '')'}

[Kaimeirra]

PERFECT



So my final template for file names, if anyone else is interested, is :

{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:'re(format_number($, '04.1f'), '\.0', '')'|#| }{title}/{authors} {series:|(| }{series_index:'re(format_number($, '04.1f'), '\.0', '')'|#|)} {series:test(,  - )} {title}

which appears as:

Author Sort/Series/#03 Title/Author (Series #03) Title

or

Author Sort/Series/#03.5 Title/Author (Series #03.5) Title

or

Author Sort/Title/Author - Title

depending on if there is a series and if the series index has a decimal

Thank You eveyone who has helped and responded

... I might even be considering whether to reduce author to 'first letter first name and full last' so as to reduce file name size something for another time lol