Feature request: match partial string when entering series

Lukusaukko · Yesterday, 01:42 PM

When I'm adding a series manually, the current behaviour matches series names starting with the characters I type - however, I often can't recall offhand if I've entered the other books in the series beginning with an article or not, or if I've shortened the official series title, and in these cases partial string match would be helpful.

Would it be feasible to do this, or would it be impractical with large libraries with possibly hundreds of entries to match? I have set up a custom column for genre, and there Calibre does match partial strings, so the feature does exist at least for some column types, but looks like the basic set (author name, series, etc) matches only the beginning.

kovidgoyal · Yesterday, 10:32 PM

Preferences->Tweaks->Completion mode when editing authors/tags/series/etc.

Lukusaukko · Today, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Preferences->Tweaks->Completion mode when editing authors/tags/series/etc.

Thank you! There are so many features in Calibre, I had no idea it already existed.

Yesterday, 01:42 PM	#1
Lukusaukko Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 392326 Join Date: Feb 2023 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Feature request: match partial string when entering series When I'm adding a series manually, the current behaviour matches series names starting with the characters I type - however, I often can't recall offhand if I've entered the other books in the series beginning with an article or not, or if I've shortened the official series title, and in these cases partial string match would be helpful. Would it be feasible to do this, or would it be impractical with large libraries with possibly hundreds of entries to match? I have set up a custom column for genre, and there Calibre does match partial strings, so the feature does exist at least for some column types, but looks like the basic set (author name, series, etc) matches only the beginning.

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Yesterday, 10:32 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,466 Karma: 27757440 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Preferences->Tweaks->Completion mode when editing authors/tags/series/etc.

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