Shorten files name when saving to disc

[theaccountant]

This is the file name that calibre saved to disc from the template folder
{#location}/{title}-{authors}

This is Brilliant_ CBT, NLP, Confidence, Memory Training, Interview Answers, Negotiations, Selling, Presentation & Networking-Stephen Briers & Richard Hall & Jeremy Cassell & Susan Hodgson & Mike McClement & Steven D'Souza

How can i shorten it?

Thanks

[eschwartz]

Depends how you want to shorten it. See Preferences ==> Saving books to disk

I prefer the following template, modified from the original:

{author_sort:list_item(0,&)}/{title}/{title} - {authors:list_item(0,&)}

Which merely switches the authors fields to use the list_item function to restrict a many-authored book (anthologies) to only using the first author's name in the filename.

[BetterRed]

@theaccountant - and I would have moved the strapline/subtitle - "CBT, NLP, Confidence..." - out of the Title column into a custom column immediately after adding the book.

BR

[theaccountant]

eschwartz,

Thank you for your very fast response. I adapted it to this

{title:shorten(30,-,8)} - {authors:list_item(0,&)}

However I've been puzzling how to select only the first 3 words of title and last one.

BetterRed your solution of moving the strapline may help although its means another custom column. At the moment some straplines i kill others i keep depending on weather i feel they add value to the title.

i can send the contents after the colon to a new column strapline, but cannot replace the contents before the colon as the new title. What w#is the correct regex here?

Thanks

[eschwartz]

Find:

([^:]*):.*

Replace:

\1