Templates: various questions not worth their own thread

[foosion]

Originally Posted by chaley

In Template Program Mode spaces are significant outside the template code. You can't put a space between the colon and the quote.

Taking out the space didn't help. I'm still getting error.

{#koboreadpct:'cmp($,100,#read,#kobolastread,#read)'}

#koboreadpct is Integers
#read and #kobolastread are both Date

Any of them might be blank.

??

EDIT: The program version worked. I do wonder why the above doesn't.

[ownedbycats]

program:
	status = readstatus();
	times = $$#timesread;
	readgoal = strcat('readinggoal:', format_date(today(), 'yyyy'));

	switch_if(
		status=='read', 'Read',
		status=='didnotfinish', 'Did Not Finish',
		status=='currentlyreading', 
			if times >#0 then 'Currently Rereading' 
			else 'Currently Reading' fi,
		status=='toberead', 'To Be Read',
		status=='unread', 
			if readgoal in $#admintags && $$#lastread then 'To Be Read' 
			elif readgoal in $#admintags then 'Backlog' 
			else 'Unread' fi,
		''
	)

Every book that matches unread and readgoal returns 'To Be Read', not just the ones with non-null dates. What did I do wrong?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Every book that matches unread and readgoal returns 'To Be Read', not just the ones with non-null dates. What did I do wrong?

A raw field reference returns the string None if the field is not defined. Use either

if readgoal in $#admintags && $$#lastread != 'None' then 'To Be Read'

or

if readgoal in $#admintags && raw_field('#lastread', '') then 'To Be Read'

[ownedbycats]

Yes, that works. Thank you.

[ownedbycats]

I'd like to replace my 'Add Cleanup tag' and 'Remove Cleanup tag' action chains with a single one that toggles it.

program:

	if 
		'[Cleanup]' inlist $tags 
	then 
		list_difference($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',') 
	else
		list_union($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',')
	fi

Line 8 is failing - it works on its own, so the mistake is something with the conditions. What did I do wrong?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I'd like to replace my 'Add Cleanup tag' and 'Remove Cleanup tag' action chains with a single one that toggles it.

program:

	if 
		'[Cleanup]' inlist $tags 
	then 
		list_difference($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',') 
	else
		list_union($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',')
	fi

Line 8 is failing - it works on its own, so the mistake is something with the conditions. What did I do wrong?

The left side of the inlist operator is a regular expression. Brackets open a character class, so your 'if' is asking if any of the letters c, l, e, a, etc are in the tag. Use '\[Cleanup\]' to avoid the character class.

If the tag is actually the string '[Cleanup]', which your list_... expressions imply, then you can use the str_in_list() function to avoid regular expressions. Something like

program:

	if 
		str_in_list($tags, ',', '[Cleanup]', 1, '')
	then 
		list_difference($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',') 
	else
		list_union($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',')
	fi

This form is likely to be faster.

[ownedbycats]

Ah, I didn't realize it'd register as a regex - I use brackets to make it sort to the beginning. Thanks.

[JohnnyBook]

Currently the Series column shows digits.

Great Series [1]
Great Series [2]

Perfect.

But occasionally I want to break it down more and add decimals points with up to 2 digits.

Another Great Series [1]
Another Great Series [1.75] <-book/short story written later which fits here timewise.
Another Great Series [2]

Ok Good.

However usually I want to have 2 digits after the decimal point.

New Great Series [1.08] <- works great for monthly magazines i.e. 1979.08 for Aug '79
New Great Series [1.09]
New Great Series [1.10]
New Great Series [1.11]
New Great Series [1.12]

BUT The [1.10] gets displayed as [1.1] loosing zero in the 2nd decimal place, as is instead displayed like this:

New Great Series [1.08]
New Great Series [1.09]
New Great Series [1.1]
New Great Series [1.11]
New Great Series [1.12]

Is there a tweak I can use for the Series Column that will force it to use 2 decimal places if a decimal is used? (I do like it uses whole numbers if no decimal is involved. so [1] [2] are fine. I just want it to display [1.1] as [1.10])

Thanks,
JohnnyBook

[chaley]

Originally Posted by JohnnyBook

Is there a tweak I can use for the Series Column that will force it to use 2 decimal places if a decimal is used? (I do like it uses whole numbers if no decimal is involved. so [1] [2] are fine. I just want it to display [1.1] as [1.10])

Thanks,
JohnnyBook

No, there isn't. The solution is the one you got when you asked this question before, make a column built from other columns that displays the series as you like. Note that you can't edit such a column. Changes must be made in the series column.