Send to device template

[rockeh]

Hi guys,

Sorry if this has been posted before (I've searched but found nothing relevant), but I have the following issue: I want to create a template that will add the book series and index to the filename, but only if they exist. I mean someting like:

J Random Author - Single Book
J Random Author - Unrelated Book
J Random Author - Amazing Series 1 - I'm Doing a Trilogy, You Guys
J Random Author - Amazing Series 2 - It's Gonna Be Awesome
J Random Author - I Lost All My Inspiration

The bolded bits are what give me trouble. See, I've looked at the Python templating, and came up with these two options:


{authors} - {: $series - $series_index - }{title}
{authors} - {: %series - %series_index - }{title}


since that's what that page suggested. However, Calibre doesn't like either option, and my Python-fu is weak.

So, can anyone give me a pointer?

Thanks in advance

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by rockeh

I want to create a template that will add the book series and index to the filename, but only if they exist.

You can't.

So, can anyone give me a pointer?

Try this:

{series} {series_index} {authors} - {title}

It puts a couple of spaces at the front of the name when {series} and {series_index} are empty, and the OS strips them off.

[rockeh]

Originally Posted by Starson17

You can't.

Aww

Originally Posted by Starson17

Try this:

{series} {series_index} {authors} - {title}

It puts a couple of spaces at the front of the name when {series} and {series_index} are empty, and the OS strips them off.

The OS stripping extra spaces is great, and solved my problem -- I put in

{authors} - {series} {series_index} {title}

and it's done the trick.

Thank you

[edit] Spelling.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by rockeh

The OS stripping extra spaces is great, and solved my problem -- I put in

{authors} - {series} {series_index} {title}

and it's done the trick.
Thank you

OS stripping of spaces only works at the beginning of the filename. I see you put it in the middle, so you don't get OS stripping, just multiple spaces, but it's better than random multiple hyphens. I put my author name in the folder/directory name, then put all my series together, followed by the title.

[rockeh]

Actually, that's worked as expected (ie, it removed the extra spaces in the filename). If it's relevant in any way, I'm using v 0.7.14 on Win 7 (64 bit version).

[jackie_w]

Please ignore (fat fingers)

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by rockeh

Actually, that's worked as expected (ie, it removed the extra spaces in the filename). If it's relevant in any way, I'm using v 0.7.14 on Win 7 (64 bit version).

...try again. It's a bug fix introduced in v7.13. Here is quote from calibre "What's New"

Save to disk/send to device templates: Always render {series_index} as an empty string when the book has no series.
Closes tickets: 6409