04 - Add Count¶
There seem to be a bit of contriversal around adding count to comics or not. Whenever a series is finished it seems like a no-brainer to add the count. Scott Pilgrim has 6 issues. There's no disputing that and there wont be any more issues in that volume So what we could do is set the Series Complete field to Yes and add 6 to the Count field on all the issues. Now they will show up ad 1 (of 6), 2 (of 6), and so on.
This is all good, but what about an ongoing series such as Nightwing (2016)? Currenly there are new issues coming out every month and i buy them either digitally or in print and add them as fake comics (see Introduction). But should i update count month or wait until the series is complete?
I select to update count regularly and I wrote my own plugin for it (CVIssueCount). It pulls the count from Comicvine and adds it to all issues with that volume number in ComicRack.
Folder Structure
4.1 Add Count¶
Download smart list: 4.1 Add Count.cbl
The first list contains all the scraped comics that doesn't have a count. Here we run the CVIssueCount script to populate the count. For newly added comics they will show up here and next month when a new comic shows up, the new one will be in this list, while the old comic will be in the next list.
Scripts
Example
Right-click -> Automation -> CVIssueCount
4.2 Add Count - Different Count¶
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Whenever two comics has the same comicvine_volume but different count they show up here. The cases for this is month A we add a comic and get the count as 2, then in month B we add another comic to from the same volume and get count as 3. Now we have two different counts on comics from the same volume. To fix this we get the count on the comic from month B again.
Example
Right-click -> Automation -> CVIssueCount
4.3 Missing CVIssueCount custom field¶
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This last script is more for my own sake of clean up. I didn't always use the CVIssueCount script as mentioned in the two sections above. This scrip also adds a custom field called comicvine_issue_count. If a comic hasn't been scraped using CVIssueCount it doesn't contain this field, so i check for comics that's missing the field, so i can run the script on them.
Scripts
Example
Right-click -> Automation -> CVIssueCount