How to create a send to device template that works

[Pouget]

Okay, apologies:
1) If someone's already asked this, I couldn't see it.
2) If this is a hardware thing, my goof.

So, I want to send books to my Asus Memo Pad 7 in a specific format.

I want:
First Name [space] Surname [hyphen] series [space] series number [hyphen] title

so I get something like:
J. F. Rivkin - Silverglass 2 - Web of Wind

I wrote a template of:
{author_sort} - {authors} - {series} {series_index} - {title}

But all I got was:
{title} - {authors}

What am I doing wrong?

[MiniMouse]

Originally Posted by Pouget

Okay, apologies:
1) If someone's already asked this, I couldn't see it.
2) If this is a hardware thing, my goof.

So, I want to send books to my Asus Memo Pad 7 in a specific format.

I want:
First Name [space] Surname [hyphen] series [space] series number [hyphen] title

so I get something like:
J. F. Rivkin - Silverglass 2 - Web of Wind

I wrote a template of:
{author_sort} - {authors} - {series} {series_index} - {title}

But all I got was:
{title} - {authors}

What am I doing wrong?

First, in my opintion you get out of your template

Rivkin, J.F. - J.F. Rivkin - Silverglass 2 - Web of wind

I'm not sure how you get the author the way you want it but for the series you should change the template to

{series}{series_index:| | - }{title}

because then you will have no [hyphen] and space between the series-index and title if there is no series-index. It basically says 'if there is a series-index make 1 space infront of the series-index and space/hyphen/space behind the series-index'.

Edit: You should do the same with the series because when you have no series you don't want any spaces or hyphens infront of it. So better write

{series:| -|}{series_index:| | - }{title}

And second: you made a new custom column with that template, right? Did you tell calibre to to use that custom column as title when sending to your device over a plugboard?

Mini

[eschwartz]

Where is this template stored? There is a save-to-disk template for the filename, and Metadata Plugboards which control the title fields. Furthermore, the save-to-disk template can get overridden by the per-device setting in the device driver (if it was ever edited, it will save the configuration even for fields not explicitly set) -- this sometimes confuses the apprentices .

With a tablet, I believe you need to set the filename in the device driver, as it requires configuring anyway. So -- select "Configure this device" from the dropdown by Device in the toolbar. And change the save template there.

MiniMouse's advice for the actual formatting is solid, I cannot add on it.
But keep in mind, if it is a filename, you can use "/" in the save path to delineate folders.

[theducks]

you can also include other Literals (the - is a literal )

"00noseries/{author_sort[0]}_authors/{authors}/{title}-{authors}

[Pouget]

Thanks all - I'll play and see what happens and what I learn.

[Pouget]

And it was...the device configuration option - thanks all - fixed it and learned something too!

xxx

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Pouget

And it was...the device configuration option - thanks all - fixed it and learned something too!

xxx

Thanks for reporting back