Would a kind soul please help with tweaking a few things?

[Yolina]

I have *no idea* how to edit the required files so I'm going to rely on the kindness of people who know what they're doing

What I would like is:

- in the "Books by Author" section: get rid of the year of publication that shows at the end of each title

- in the "Description" section: get rid of the format and year of publication.

Anyone could do this for me and upload the files? Pretty please?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Yolina

I have *no idea* how to edit the required files so I'm going to rely on the kindness of people who know what they're doing

What I would like is:

- in the "Books by Author" section: get rid of the year of publication that shows at the end of each title

- in the "Description" section: get rid of the format and year of publication.

Anyone could do this for me and upload the files? Pretty please?

"In the year of our lord,
Nineteen-Hundred-Seventy-Two" was in the title ?

I am making fun out of your post because it has 2 common posting failings:


1) all solutions are assumed to be "One Size Fits all" cases you may have

2) You assumed we could see exactly how the pattern appears to help generate a replace (with a nil string) REGEX template.


Please copy and paste into a "code" (the "#" on the MR advanced editing menu) (

 <paste here>

), the exact title, as it appears, to be replaced without the date.

Spaces in the name, count, so don't miss any.

Still, I would not recommend applying the S&R globally to an existing as Library, as other titles may get *fixed* incorrectly

[Yolina]

You've completely lost me there, so I think it might be better if I just drop the idea, but thanks anyway

I basically looked at the sticky "Creating Catalogs: Start here" and then the "Customizing the Descriptions template and Section lists" bit in there which says which files to edit... after which point I was lost, hence why I was asking. Nevermind, I can live with the catalogue the way it is

[theducks]

I really suggest that you do NOT try a automated title change.

What is so hard about pasting the example title nto a MR message?



Sample of the title that the (undesired) Year appears in:

Analog 03 1973

Now some MR Guru comes back with:
Search field: title
Search for:(\w+)\s(\d+) (\d{4})
Replace with: \1 \2 (there is a space between \1 and \2)

This only works with MY EXAMPLE

[Manichean]

@theducks: I think you're confusing what the OP wants to do. He wants to customize output in a catalog, not bulk edit book titles. (That said, I have no idea how to do that, just wanted to get you on track.)

[Yolina]

Yes that's what I was after Manichean, apologies to all if it wasn't clear. Oh and I'm a she btw but as I've said, I think I'll just keep the catalog as it - I thought it might be reasonably straighforward to change, even for someone who know absolutely zero about it all like me but I was obviously (very) wrong - so I'll go back to messing around with the registry on my phone or flash a new rom or something, that at least I understand

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Manichean

@theducks: I think you're confusing what the OP wants to do. He wants to customize output in a catalog, not bulk edit book titles. (That said, I have no idea how to do that, just wanted to get you on track.)

My bad