Series Index Number

[chaley]

And for fun, here is an action chain that does the job using the above template. It sets the column #my_float to the highest series index for the book's series. Import the chain then change the Single Field Edit to use your column. There is probably a way to make it not flash the selection, but I'm not enough of an action chains guru to know what it is.

It isn't the fastest thing in the universe, but given it is run on demand I think it is good enough. It would be much faster if it used a "Python code" action that operated on all books in the library instead of book-by-book. This would also get rid of the flash. I leave that as an exercise for the reader.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by DJH352

I added an empty book to the Jack Reacher series and calibre immediately populated the column for that book with the maximum index number. There was no lag (1,350 books)

After a re-start all books in the series were updated. When I deleted the empty book and restarted calibre, the field automatically updated again

You can avoid the restart by selecting any two (or more) books in the library, press E for "Edit metadata in bulk", then immediately pressing OK without changing anything. Your column will update in all the books.