Proper Case Titles

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by chaley

It is showing you the text indicated by the "Search field". If the search field is "template" it shows you that, the result of the template. The "Test result" column shows the text after transforms are applied to the search field. When using templates usually there aren't any, but there can be.

Thanks for the information.

[E-Book lezer]

Originally Posted by chaley

You didn't correctly follow the example. See the attachment.

Thanks. It works

[Comfy.n]

I thought the template used for titles would run fine for authors, but I couldn't make it work. Here's what I want to automate via Action Chains:

One click executes a search and replace to change 'john smith' to 'John Smith'.

Tried this in bulk metadata dialog:

Spoiler:

python:
def evaluate(book, context):
import re
nt = []
for w in re.split(r'([ _.()])', book.get('author')):
nt.append(w.capitalize())
return ''.join(nt)

@chaley, I wonder if such a feature would be implementable/welcome in the bulk MDE, similar to the title case functionality.

edit: just found how to do this, without a template, in Bulk MDE: it's 'Apply function after replace'

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

I thought the template used for titles would run fine for authors, but I couldn't make it work. Here's what I want to automate via Action Chains:

One click executes a search and replace to change 'john smith' to 'John Smith'.

Tried this in bulk metadata dialog:

Spoiler:

python:
def evaluate(book, context):
import re
nt = []
for w in re.split(r'([ _.()])', book.get('author')):
nt.append(w.capitalize())
return ''.join(nt)

@chaley, I wonder if such a feature would be implementable/welcome in the bulk MDE, similar to the title case functionality.

edit: just found how to do this, without a template, in Bulk MDE: it's 'Apply function after replace'

The template didn't work because authors is a multi-valued field (a list). The template must process it author-by-author. Like this:

python:
def evaluate(book, context):
	import re
	new_auts = []
	for author in book.authors:
		aut = []
		for w in re.split(r'([ _.()])', author):
			aut.append(w.capitalize())
		new_auts.append(''.join(aut))
	return ' & '.join(new_auts)

[Comfy.n]

thanks!