[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ownedbycats]

Is it just those two lines broken? Try replaze site with publisher - I think Jim told me it was bad to change site directly.

[Chrystalline]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

site with publisher

That worked, thank you! Pretty much everything I have in my Replace Metadata section is copied from someone in this hundreds-of-pages-long thread, so I'd been using that from...someone. No idea. It's been years.

I use them for custom column colors, so it stood out when it changed on me.

Thanks!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Chrystalline

Is it just me? My replace metadata has broken with the latest FFF update. With all the craziness at AO3, I'd been (semi)patiently waiting to update my subscribed stories, but while the entries I downloaded on March 1st before I updated FanFicFare have the replacements I've been using for years, everything I downloaded tonight does NOT have the replacement metadata. I tried commenting it out and rebooting Calibre before uncommenting it and retrying (using saved metadata column), but that didn't work. Not sure what else to try. I'd rather not have to uninstall and reinstall the plugin, but I don't know enough to know whether that is necessary.

##Publishers
 site=>www.fanfiction.net=>FFN
 site=>archiveofourown.org=>AO3

FFF uses site internally for some things that changing it can break. The last release made site and a few others immutable.

Use publisher instead.

[ownedbycats]

Question: Is possible to assign multiple categories to a single custom column?

[JimmXinu]

If you mean the list of values in metadata entry category, yes, that's how it works.

If you mean more than one metadata entry (eg ships and characters), yes, by using custom_columns_settings with 'a' mode.

## (Plugin Only) - You can also populate calibre custom columns with
## the site specific metadata using custom_columns_settings (but only
## if 'Allow custom_columns_settings from personal.ini' is checked in
## the plugin GUI config.)  There are three parts, the entry name,
## then the label of the calibre custom column, then (optionally) a
## 'mode'.  'r' to Replace any existing values, 'a' to Add to existing
## value (use with tag-like columns), and 'n' for setting on New books
## only.  (Default is 'r'.)
custom_columns_settings:
 ships=>#acolumn,r
 characters=>#acolumn,a

[ownedbycats]

I did a update-metadata-from-column, got 'invalid group reference 1 at position 15' - any idea of meaning?

It also happens regular update. This is fic

EDIT: One of these lines is causing failure - chartags is a custom copy for characters

 chartags=>Male Shepard=>Shepard (Male)
 chartags=>Female Shepard=>Shepard (Female)
 chartags=>^Shepard=>[Mass Effect].\1
 chartags=>^(Garrus Vakarian|Tali'Zorah nar Rayya)=>[Mass Effect].\1

[JimmXinu]

Sounds like a mistake in a regexp. Debug log?

[ownedbycats]

I narrowed it down to the one line

 chartags=>^Shepard=>[Mass Effect].\1

Not sure what went wrong