Help with sorting

[Joan M]

Newbie lurker here with no programming background. I've struggled along for a few months trying to read and learn but I'm hung up on a couple of things right now.

How could I sort so that I retrieve all the title sort and author sort in the edit metatdata fields that have the red background?

Also, I'm just not understanding how to manipulate the Manage Author/Author Sort Table. I want to have all the Author be FN, LN and most of the Author Sort to be LN, FN. And I want to be able to manually set various van, von, de, etc. to my liking.

I'm using the most recent version and have just one plugin so far - Find Duplicates. I've also been getting various "ERROR: Unhandled exception" messages, but perhaps that should wait until another time.

Thanks.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Joan M

Newbie lurker here with no programming background. I've struggled along for a few months trying to read and learn but I'm hung up on a couple of things right now.

How could I sort so that I retrieve all the title sort and author sort in the edit metatdata fields that have the red background?

Also, I'm just not understanding how to manipulate the Manage Author/Author Sort Table. I want to have all the Author be FN, LN and most of the Author Sort to be LN, FN. And I want to be able to manually set various van, von, de, etc. to my liking.

I'm using the most recent version and have just one plugin so far - Find Duplicates. I've also been getting various "ERROR: Unhandled exception" messages, but perhaps that should wait until another time.

Thanks.

The Quality check PI does that check and mark (and OH! ...so much more)

[Joan M]

Hot Diggity Dog! That p.i. looks like it could keep me occupied for months. That kiwidude is pretty cool, huh? Thanks for the prompt response.

[piperclassique]

Holy Todedo! Where has this been all my life?
I love you, theducks. Will you marry me?
I would ask kiwidude but I suppose he/she is too busy writing plugins to notice.
And Joan, great question!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by piperclassique

Holy Todedo! Where has this been all my life?
I love you, theducks. Will you marry me?
I would ask kiwidude but I suppose he/she is too busy writing plugins to notice.
And Joan, great question!

Yes!
That is my #1 favorite/used PI. It does so many things but remains focused. Ithelps improve the quality and consistancy of your metadata.

My #2 is Manage Series. Public (series) metadata is a total mess . The names may/may not include articles for wifferent books within. Then there are adittional words. The Xyz Novels/Series. To include or not is personal, but consisistancy is paramount.

My #3 is count pages. Mostly just for my information, but it can be an indicateor of coding issues, when the numbers appear to be way off centre of what was expected for that type of book.