[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[suhair]

For fic collected in more than one series, is there a way to replace the default series with one of the additional series? There are a few authors that have a catchall series that all their fic goes in which is listed first and then more specific series if a oneshot gets continued. In those cases I want the more specific series to appear in the Series column instead of the default one.

[JimmXinu]

You can change the series name (and number) to any value with replace_metadata on series or specifically to one of the other series with include_in_series.

[https://archiveofourown.org/works/99999]

## to an arbitrary value:
add_to_replace_metadata:
 series=>^.*$=>Series I Want [1]

## Or, instead, to one of the other series:
include_in_series:series01

But seriesUrl is hard coded to be immutable starting in the Mar 1 2026 release.

This might be a worthwhile reason to reverse that decision for seriesUrl... Let me think on it for a bit.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

If you don't mean the error you were talking about last and instead mean it just doesn't match, I would suspect the space between gender and species.

In practice, you may want " *" for most spaces for when authors do/don't include them.

If that doesn't help, you should know by now to include story URLs that exhibit the issue.

Ah yeah, it was a space Thanks, I feel sillly now

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

But seriesUrl is hard coded to be immutable starting in the Mar 1 2026 release.

This might be a worthwhile reason to reverse that decision for seriesUrl... Let me think on it for a bit.

Ah crap, I modify seriesUrls to series copied from challenge/exchange colllections.

I was thinking of moving them to fanfictags anyways, I think on it

[suhair]

What I'm trying to do is for only three specific authors always replace series00 with series01 when there is a series01. I've tried this so far:

add_to_replace_metadata:
 series=>series00=>series01&&author=>AuthorA|AuthorB|AuthorC

One author has over 50 fic with a new catchall series for every year.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by suhair

What I'm trying to do is for only three specific authors always replace series00 with series01 when there is a series01. I've tried this so far:

add_to_replace_metadata:
 series=>series00=>series01&&author=>AuthorA|AuthorB|AuthorC

One author has over 50 fic with a new catchall series for every year.

That's not going to work at all.

replace_metadata operates on the current value using regular expressions and doesn't have a way to bring in other metadata entry values.

personal.ini sections can be by site or story, but not author. It would nice logically, but that's collected after the config is already read.

To do it by author, the best I can think of is to use a custom column instead of the normal series column:

## Limit to AO3 site
[www.archiveofourown.org]

## Clear the value of 'series' for these authors.
add_to_replace_metadata:
 series=>^.*$=>&&author=~^(AuthorA|AuthorB|AuthorC)$

## Set #my_series custom column to series01, but then overwrite it
## if there's a value in 'series'.
add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 series01=>#my_series
 series=>#my_series

Actually, another, very kludgey way comes to mind:

## Limit to AO3 site
[www.archiveofourown.org]

## Put both series and series01 in 'series' as a list with a marker in between.
include_in_series:series,"<>",series01

## Keep series (as a list) in order
keep_in_order_series:true

## Take the second part (series01) for these specific authors,
## and the first part (series) for all others.
## 'series_LIST' says to operate on the whole list as a string,
## normal 'series' lines operate on each entry in the list.
add_to_replace_metadata:
 series_LIST=>^(.*), <>, (.*)$=>\2&&author=~^(AuthorA|AuthorB|AuthorC)$
 series_LIST=>^(.*), <>, (.*)$=>\1

NOTE!! This does not change seriesUrl. That will still be the original seriesUrl. The custom column idea is a lot safer.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2026-03-09
- Make seriesUrl mutable again.

I can't think of why I made seriesUrl immutable, so it's changeable again.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

New Test Version Posted

2026-03-09
- Make seriesUrl mutable again.

I can't think of why I made seriesUrl immutable, so it's changeable again.

Thank you