[FanFicFare] Metadata Management for Fanfiction

[iakrus]

Originally Posted by culytera

You can't directly add onto a custom_column via replace_metadata, you'd need add_to_custom_columns_settings for that. But since you also want to have different data on #mycollections, you'll need to make another extra entry where you'll add the value from category. Here's how I would do that:

add_to_extra_valid_entries:,category_modified
include_in_category_modified:category

replace_metadata:
 category_modified=>House of the Dragon (TV)=>House of the Dragon

add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 category_modified=>#mycollections

thank you so so much for this!!! there are a few problems but its put me massively in the right direction and id never have figured this out on my own!

so, while fiddling with the code you gave me i have discovered that:

 category_modified=>Star Wars - All Media Types|Star Wars Original Trilogy|Star Wars Prequel Trilogy=>Star Wars

 category_modified=>Star Wars - All Media Types=>Star Wars
 category_modified=>Star Wars Original Trilogy=>Star Wars
 category_modified=>Star Wars Prequel Trilogy=>Star Wars

all work the same! im adding this in case someone has the same problem i have and comes looking for answers.

the real problem is that any ao3 fandom name with a character that gets used in code doesnt work. for example "Game of Thrones (TV)" has brackets, and "A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms" has the & ampersand. therefore, they are not read correctly and instead of modifying to the new column name i wanted, just copy themselves over in full.

i included those star wars examples because "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types" and "Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game)" and "Star Wars Legends: Republic (Comics)" don't work.

ive included colour coded images to show what i mean. i added harry potter after the first screenshot to see if crossovers work (they do!).

i hope theres a way to fix this- i tried putting the fandom names in quotation marks but that didnt work.
even if this is as much as we can do, it already fixed the problem i was having with the generate cover plug in, and manually editing out metadata is way easier than typing it in each time!!
so yeah, thanks!

[culytera]

Ah I forgot, the parentheses need to be escaped since they have their own function in regex, so:

replace_metadata:
 category_modified=>House of the Dragon \(TV\)=>House of the Dragon

As for the ampersands, you might need to change them to & so:

replace_metadata:
 category_modified=>A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms=>ASOIAF | GOT

[beecasso]

Hey everyone, this thread has been a great help to me, thank you!
And I know this thread is old, but…
Is there a way to put multiple series on the cover and/or titlepage?

[chicleeblair]

I've asked something like this before, but whatever the answer was isn't working. Is there a way to pull the number of words in the newest chapter? Either by subtraction or data on the site? AO3 has the chapter word count in emails, so it has to be somewhere.

I want to put it in a column, and also in the summary so it's easier to scroll on my ereader and compare, say, length of a one-shot to a new chapter of another fic when I don't have much time.

[ownedbycats]

You can copy the old wordcount to another column before update and then use a Calibre template to compare it to the new one.

[ownedbycats]

Alternately, Reading Goal might be useful here as it keeps track of read pages. Not easily accessible to columns though.

[chicleeblair]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

You can copy the old wordcount to another column before update and then use a Calibre template to compare it to the new one.

Manually?

[ownedbycats]

Manually, or an action chain might be able to do it.