[FanFicFare] Metadata Management for Fanfiction

[iakrus]

Originally Posted by culytera

You can't directly add onto a custom_column via replace_metadata, you'd need add_to_custom_columns_settings for that. But since you also want to have different data on #mycollections, you'll need to make another extra entry where you'll add the value from category. Here's how I would do that:

add_to_extra_valid_entries:,category_modified
include_in_category_modified:category

replace_metadata:
 category_modified=>House of the Dragon (TV)=>House of the Dragon

add_to_custom_columns_settings:
 category_modified=>#mycollections

thank you so so much for this!!! there are a few problems but its put me massively in the right direction and id never have figured this out on my own!

so, while fiddling with the code you gave me i have discovered that:

 category_modified=>Star Wars - All Media Types|Star Wars Original Trilogy|Star Wars Prequel Trilogy=>Star Wars

 category_modified=>Star Wars - All Media Types=>Star Wars
 category_modified=>Star Wars Original Trilogy=>Star Wars
 category_modified=>Star Wars Prequel Trilogy=>Star Wars

all work the same! im adding this in case someone has the same problem i have and comes looking for answers.

the real problem is that any ao3 fandom name with a character that gets used in code doesnt work. for example "Game of Thrones (TV)" has brackets, and "A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms" has the & ampersand. therefore, they are not read correctly and instead of modifying to the new column name i wanted, just copy themselves over in full.

i included those star wars examples because "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types" and "Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game)" and "Star Wars Legends: Republic (Comics)" don't work.

ive included colour coded images to show what i mean. i added harry potter after the first screenshot to see if crossovers work (they do!).

i hope theres a way to fix this- i tried putting the fandom names in quotation marks but that didnt work.
even if this is as much as we can do, it already fixed the problem i was having with the generate cover plug in, and manually editing out metadata is way easier than typing it in each time!!
so yeah, thanks!

[culytera]

Ah I forgot, the parentheses need to be escaped since they have their own function in regex, so:

replace_metadata:
 category_modified=>House of the Dragon \(TV\)=>House of the Dragon

As for the ampersands, you might need to change them to & so:

replace_metadata:
 category_modified=>A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms=>ASOIAF | GOT