[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[Mieeka]

Couple of things i want to be able to do - but cant seem to work out how

1) Add a Tag "oneshot" when the story is complete and only has 1 chapter.

2) prefix the Extra tags with the category (eg. time travel tag becomes Supernatural.Time Travel

3) populate the ratings based on the Kudos or reviews E.G ones with 1000 > reviews get 5 stars.

Are there any ways of going the above?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Depletion

I'm glad to see the switch from FFDL to FFF went rather smoothly. Thanks for all the effort put into the move, and of course the plugin itself.

Thanks.

[Montana Harper]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Yes, actually. In personal.ini in the appropriate section add:

join_string_characters:\s&\s

Then instead of ', ' it will use ' & ' when joining the list.

Oooh, can I do that with the freeformtags from AO3? Would the syntax be the same (i.e., join_string_freeformtags)? And would it go under custom_columns_settings or just under the AO3 area in general?

Thanks!

[Tanjamuse]

Can you make a custom column where it automatically adds the free-form tags?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Montana Harper

Oooh, can I do that with the freeformtags from AO3? Would the syntax be the same (i.e., join_string_freeformtags)? And would it go under custom_columns_settings or just under the AO3 area in general?

Yes.

In the [archiveofourown.org] section, not as part of custom_columns_settings.

[Tanjamuse]

How do you create a custom column where only the freeformtags goes?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Mieeka

1) Add a Tag "oneshot" when the story is complete and only has 1 chapter.

This appears to work:

# defaults so is affects everything, but can be overridden by 
# more specific sections.
[defaults]

# 'add_to_' concats on to existing param, thus the leading comma
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,oneshot

# oneshot is a copy of status because status itself isn't a list.
include_in_oneshot:status

# add oneshot to the tags that are included in calibre.
add_to_include_subject_tags:,oneshot

# Change oneshot to ['Completed'] to ['Completed','Oneshot'] only when
# numChapters is exactly 1.
# with ',' instead of '\,' it would be ['Completed'] to 
# ['Completed,Oneshot']--one string instead of two.
add_to_replace_metadata:
 oneshot=>Completed=>Completed\,Oneshot&&numChapters=>^1$

(Personally, I keep a Chapters custom column.)

Originally Posted by Mieeka

2) prefix the Extra tags with the category (eg. time travel tag becomes Supernatural.Time Travel

I think you mean category, not 'extra' tags.

There's been discussion before about hierarchical tags--I don't really know any more about them now than I did then. (I will be adding the replace_metadata discussion from that to the project wiki, though.)

For category Supernatural specifically, you can do this:

add_to_replace_metadata:
 genre=>(.*)=>Supernatural.\1&&category=>Supernatural

I don't have a general solution for <category>.<genre>. Frankly, I don't see the need: do a calibre search for "tags:action and tags:supernatural" and you have the same effect as supernatural.action.

Maybe one of the other hierarchical tags have a better solution?

Originally Posted by Mieeka

3) populate the ratings based on the Kudos or reviews E.G ones with 1000 > reviews get 5 stars.

FanFicFare doesn't have any mechanism for populating Calibre's rating column. It would be quite complex because it would have to be configurable for everyone to choose their own break points between stars.

You can make a custom column, populate it with Kudos, reviews, etc and then use Calibre's various features change colors, add icons, etc based on those numbers.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Can you make a custom column where it automatically adds the free-form tags?

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

How do you create a custom column where only the freeformtags goes?

Check the previous discussion here and replace ao3categories with freeformtags.

[Tanjamuse]

Thanks.

Why does it still say Angel: Angel: The Series in my Fandom Column, when I have this in my personal.ini?

Edit: Nevermind, I don't know what happened, but it's now fixed.

However, when I add fandoms with a & it doesn't replace the metadata with the one I asked for.

Like this:

category=>Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types$=>Percy Jackson & The Olympians

[thatblondelady]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

Thanks.

Why does it still say Angel: Angel: The Series in my Fandom Column, when I have this in my personal.ini?

Edit: Nevermind, I don't know what happened, but it's now fixed.

However, when I add fandoms with a & it doesn't replace the metadata with the one I asked for.

Like this:

I think this function uses regex, which means you will need to escape the ampersand. Try putting a \ before the & and see if that helps.

[Tanjamuse]

I have tried with:

\&

\&\

&\

none of it works.

[Mieeka]

Thanks for the replies

Bit of a odd thing I've noticed.

When updating a Anthology and selecting the option "update if new chapters", it always tries to update even if there are no new chapters.

an Example is a anthology creating using the Web page option http://archiveofourown.org/series/29357

This has had no updates since 2014 yet wants be to overwrite the existing epubs.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Mieeka

When updating a Anthology and selecting the option "update if new chapters", it always tries to update even if there are no new chapters.

an Example is a anthology creating using the Web page option http://archiveofourown.org/series/29357

This has had no updates since 2014 yet wants be to overwrite the existing epubs.

It looks like it's working normally to me.

An anthology update is a bit different than single book updates. If you look at 'View Log' when it's finished, I bet it for each book it says something like 'reuse as is'.

[Tanjamuse]

When I add fandoms with a & it doesn't replace the metadata with the one I asked for.

Like this:

category=>Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types=>Percy Jackson & The Olympians

I have already tried with \ in front of or behind the &.

What am I doing wrong?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

 category=>Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types$=>Percy Jackson & The Olympians

This one I admit is rather obscure. The & is actually &amp; because of xhtml entities. The same thing happens with <(&lt;) >(&gt;).

So this works:

 category=>Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types$=>Percy Jackson & The Olympians

But I suggest instead considering:

 category=>.*Percy Jackson.*Olympians.*=>Percy Jackson & The Olympians

That will catch everything that contains 'Percy Jackson' and 'Olympians' in that order without regard to what appear before, between or after those strings.

@thatblondelady: Good guess about the regex escaping, but & isn't a regex special character. They are: [\^$.|?*+()

I'm adding something to the wiki page about replace_metadata about this.