Library Management: various questions not worth their own thread

[theducks]

The index does not have to be (stay) sequential.
Compacting the DB just gets rid of the deadwood (records marked inactive).
You gain nothing by re-sequencing

[ownedbycats]

Are saved searches case-sensitive?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Are saved searches case-sensitive?

Not sure what you are asking. The search in the saved search respects the current search options, whatever they are. The name of the search is IIRC case sensitive, but I don't know why that would matter.

[ownedbycats]

Yeah, the name of the search. I was fixing some inconsistent capitalization and wanted to know if I ought to double-check that it didn't mess up anything that might reference it (VLs).

[Xadro]

Greetings,

I'm trying to do something seemingly simple but can't get it to work.

The result i want is when i try to save my ebooks to disk is:

{series}/{title} - {authors}

But half my books are not part of a series so in those cases I want to pick {authors}

I thought it should look kinda like this:

{series||authors}/{title} - {authors}

But that doesn't work.

Anyone able to help? Or point me in the right direction at least.

[DNSB]

The template I use for save to disk is:

{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{series:|[|} {series_index:0>2s||] - }{title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

Basically, create a subdirectory based on the first author in the author_sort list then add the series/series index if it exists in [ ] - , then title - first entry in the author list.

Say I saved David Eddings' Losers to disk, I would see the following:

Eddings, David/Losers - David Eddings.epub

Whereas if I saved J. D. Robb's Desperation in Death (In Death #56] to disk, I would see:

Robb, J. D_/[In Death 56] - Desperation in Death - J. D. Robb.epub

The reason for not including the entire author list is that I have quite a few anthologies where the filename alone never mind the filepath/filename exceed the 240 character maximum path length calibre used.

For instance the The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964 edited by Robert Silverberg would require a total of 1464 characters if I tried to use the entire author/author sort list:

Silverberg, Robert & Weinbaum, Stanley G. & Campbell, John W. & Rey, Lester Del & Heinlein, Robert A. & Sturgeon, Theodore & Asimov, Isaac & Vogt, A. E. Van & Padgett, Lewis & Simak, Clifford D. & Brown, Fredric & Leinster, Murray & Merril, Judith & Smith, Cordwainer & Bradbury, Ray & Kornbluth, C. M. & Matheson, Richard & Leiber, Fritz & Boucher, Anthony & Blish, James & Clarke, Arthur C. & Bixby, Jerome & Godwin, Tom & Bester, Alfred & Knight, Damon & Keyes, Daniel & Zelazny, Roger/[SF Hall of Fame 01] - The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964 - Robert Silverberg (ed) & Stanley G. Weinbaum & John W. Campbell & Lester Del Rey & Robert A. Heinlein & Theodore Sturgeon & Isaac Asimov & A. E. Van Vogt & Lewis Padgett & Clifford D. Simak & Fredric Brown & Murray Leinster & Judith Merril & Cordwainer Smith & Ray Bradbury & C. M. Kornbluth & Richard Matheson & Fritz Leiber & Anthony Boucher & James Blish & Arthur C. Clarke & Jerome Bixby & Tom Godwin & Alfred Bester & Damon Knight & Daniel Keyes & Roger Zelazny

[capink]

Originally Posted by Xadro

Greetings,

I'm trying to do something seemingly simple but can't get it to work.

The result i want is when i try to save my ebooks to disk is:

{series}/{title} - {authors}

But half my books are not part of a series so in those cases I want to pick {authors}

I thought it should look kinda like this:

{series||authors}/{title} - {authors}

But that doesn't work.

Anyone able to help? Or point me in the right direction at least.

{series:ifempty({authors})}/{title} - {authors}

[chaley]

Originally Posted by capink

{series:ifempty({authors})}/{title} - {authors}

Subtemplates don't work reliably in single function mode (SFM) because they are interpolated before the arguments are parsed, meaning the content will be parsed as arguments.

Better would be this in template program mode (TPM):

{series:'ifempty($, $authors)'}/{title} - {authors}

I suggest that the template should use only the first author to avoid path length problems. This one does that using both TPM and SFM

{series:'ifempty($, list_item($authors, 0, '&'))'}/{title} - {authors:list_item(0,&)}

[Xadro]

Thank you all for the quick and thorough replies, in the end i also got something to work:

{series:first_non_empty({series},{author:sublist(0,1,&)})}/{title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

Haven't tried it yet with my entire library but with a few tests it does exactly what i wanted.

[Xadro]

Since i was on a roll i further changed how i wanted it to look and now i got this

{series:'ifempty("{series:|[|]}", list_item($author, 0, '&'))'}/{series:|| [{series_index:0>2.1f}] - }{title} - {authors:sublist(0,2, & )}

Just to prettify things up.

[ownedbycats]

What does the menu option "Book list header menu" supposed to do? I tried it but saw no effect.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

What does the menu option "Book list header menu" supposed to do? I tried it but saw no effect.

you mean the menu that opens when one right clicks the book list column headers?

[ownedbycats]

I'm not sure. I noticed it in the Toolbars & Menus options.

[theducks]

You can split the book list apart Vertically.
Every thang to the right, movest to the left.
Right click a column header where you want it to split: slect split

Don't worry, the next time you right click an a header, there is NOW and undo split

[Comfy.n]

oh, I see. I had never tried this, but I just noticed that, when placed on the main toolbar, that menu opens at the Title column position, regardless of its position on the toolbar, it seems.

So maybe you're not seeing where it's opening, for some reason


edit: the menu opens at the selected "cell", which happened to be on the Title column in this case!