setting authors.name to authors.sort

richardsugg · 01-18-2013, 12:24 PM

I wanted my author names to be the same as the sort field. I didn't see a way in Calibre to do this en masse, so used sqlite3 to do

update authors set name=sort;

The data looked correct, but in the main screen of calibre, all the author names showed up as "Lastname & Firstname" rather than "Lastname, Firstname". If I edit the metadata of an individual book, Calibre correctly shows "Lastname, Firstname" in the author field. It's only on the main screen that the "&" shows up as a separator.

How can I get the author name to be the same as the author sort field?

richardsugg · 01-18-2013, 12:51 PM

Found it and "wow"! In tag browser, right click on Authors and choose "manage authors". THere's an option there to do *exactly* what I wanted.

Sabardeyn · 01-18-2013, 03:50 PM

Calibre is quite powerful and many desirable functions are built in. The problem is usually trying to remember where it is located and how to use it.

Remember to look at Preferences>Tweaks as that tends to be the location for "set it once and leave it that way" kinds of options.

01-18-2013, 12:24 PM	#1
richardsugg Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: iPad	setting authors.name to authors.sort I wanted my author names to be the same as the sort field. I didn't see a way in Calibre to do this en masse, so used sqlite3 to do update authors set name=sort; The data looked correct, but in the main screen of calibre, all the author names showed up as "Lastname & Firstname" rather than "Lastname, Firstname". If I edit the metadata of an individual book, Calibre correctly shows "Lastname, Firstname" in the author field. It's only on the main screen that the "&" shows up as a separator. How can I get the author name to be the same as the author sort field?

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01-18-2013, 12:51 PM	#2
richardsugg Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: iPad	Found it and "wow"! In tag browser, right click on Authors and choose "manage authors". THere's an option there to do exactly what I wanted.

01-18-2013, 03:50 PM	#3
Sabardeyn Guru Posts: 644 Karma: 1242364 Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Right Coast Device: PC (Calibre), Nexus 7 2013 (Moon+ Pro), HTC HD2/Leo (Freda)	Calibre is quite powerful and many desirable functions are built in. The problem is usually trying to remember where it is located and how to use it. Remember to look at Preferences>Tweaks as that tends to be the location for "set it once and leave it that way" kinds of options.

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