06 - Format¶
Folder Structure
Formatting has been one of the hardest things for me to automate correctly. I like to have the following formats on my comics:
- TPB
- Director's Cut
- One-Shot
- Black & White
- Annual
- Limited Series
- Main Series
- Preview
In order to correctly tag all of these things, i use 20 smart lists. It might seem excessive, but i works for me.
6.1 Auto tagged based on Filenames¶
The five lists in this folder is for automatic tagging using Data Manager. Whenever a comic contains one of these formats in the filename, you can run Data Manager on them to be tagged.
Most of these comics will already be tagged in Section 5.0 - Datamanager but should one be found in the lists below, just run Data Manager on it.
6.1.1 Original: TPB¶
Download smart list: 6.1.1 Original TPB.cbl
This list contains all Trade Paper Back (TPB) comics.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Automation -> Data Manager Mod
Scripts
6.1.2 Original: Director's Cut¶
Download smart list: 6.1.2 Original Director's Cut.cbl
This list contains all Director's Cut comics.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Automation -> Data Manager Mod
Scripts
6.1.3 Original: One-Shot¶
Download smart list: 6.1.3 One-Shot.cbl
This list contains all One-Shot comics.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Automation -> Data Manager Mod
Scripts
6.1.4 Original: Black & White¶
Download smart list: 6.1.4 Black & White.cbl
This list contains all Black & White comics. Sometimes you will find a comic that shouldn't be in here and you can add yes to the Format Ok field in order to ignore it.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Automation -> Data Manager Mod
Scripts
6.1.5 Original: Annual¶
Download smart list: 6.1.5 Annual.cbl
This list contains all Annual comics.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Automation -> Data Manager Mod
Scripts
6.2 Auto tagged based on rules¶
Where Section 6.1 tagged based on filename, this section tags based on rules and checks the Series and Title.
6.2.1 Director's Cut¶
Download smart list: 6.2.1 Director's cut.cbl
This list contains all Director's Cut comics.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Automation -> Data Manager Mod
Scripts
6.2.1 Black & White¶
Download smart list: 6.2.2 Black & White.cbl
This list contains all Black & White comics.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Automation -> Data Manager Mod
Scripts
6.3 Tag based on rules¶
With the previous two section we tagged with Data Manager based on either filenames or series/title. In this section you manually have to tag the comics based on different rules.
You should manually check that each comic is correctly placed before tagging it.
6.3.1 Rules: TPB¶
Download smart list: 6.3.1 Rules: TPB.cbl
This list should contain all TPBs.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Edit -> TPB
Scripts
None
6.3.2 Rules: One-Shot¶
Download smart list: 6.3.2 Rules: One-Shot.cbl
This list should contain all One-Shot.
A One-Shot is where the count is 1. This can be confusing with a new series where only 1 issue is out. If format is correct and isn't One-Shot, set the Format Ok field to yes.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Edit -> One-Shot
Scripts
None
6.3.3 Rules: Limited Series¶
Download smart list: 6.3.3 Rules: Limited Series.cbl
This list should contain all Limited Series. A limited series in my mind is a series with less than 15 issues, so we check if the count is between 2 and 15 (1 would be a One-Shot) and if the number is between 1-15.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Edit -> Limited Series
Scripts
None
6.3.4 Rules: Main Series¶
Download smart list: 6.3.4 Rules: Main Series.cbl
This list should contain all Main Series. A main series is basically anything with a count over 15.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Edit -> Main Series
Scripts
None
6.3.5 Rules: Preview¶
Download smart list: 6.3.5 Rules: Preview.cbl
This list should contain all Previews.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Edit -> Preview
Scripts
None
6.4 Cleanup: Series with mismatch Formats¶
Download smart list: 6.4 Cleanup: Series with mismatch Formats.cbl
This list checks for comics where the comicvine_volume is the same, but Format is different. This can happen with a Director's Cut or TPB that was scraped wrong or if the first issue of a Limited Series was tagged as a One-Shot before the next issue was released.
Column Layout
┌───────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────────┬──────────────┐
│ State │ Series │ comicvine_volume │ Format │ Original Format │ Format OK │
└───────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────────┴──────────────┘
Action
Right-click -> Edit -> add correct format
Scripts
6.5 Cleanup: Different Series Volumes¶
Download smart list: 6.5 Cleanup: Different Series Volumes.cbl
Sometimes we find comics where two issue will have the same Series, Volume and Format but have different comicvine_volumes. This can be because issues are scraped wrong, or because there's two series the same year with the same name. If we run Library Organizer on these comics, we will get conflicts.
There's different actions to this. Either rescrape for the correct volume or add yes to Format Ok. If you accept the format, then make sure that the title or another field is used by Library Organizer when renaming them, or you will get conflicts.
Column Layout
┌───────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│ State │ Series │ comicvine_volume │ Format │ Volume │ datamanager_processed │ Format Ok │
└───────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────────────┴─────────────┘
Action
Rescrape or fix format
Scripts
6.6 Cleanup: Set Missing Format¶
Download smart list: 6.6 Cleanup: Set Missing Format.cbl
This list is made to catch the last comics, that didn't get tagged correctly. Go through each of these and add correct format.
Column Layout
┌───────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┐
│ State │ Series │ Format │ Pages │ Number │ Format Ok │
└───────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴────────────┴─────────────┘
Action
Fix format
Scripts
None
6.7 Cleanup: Black & White¶
Download smart list: 6.7 Cleanup: Black & White.cbl
Make sure comics tagged with Black & White are actually B/W comics and not just comics that contains black & white in the title or otherwise.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Fix format if needed
Scripts
None
6.8 Correct Previous Tag for ongoing series¶
As mentioned above, ongoing series will most likely start out being tagged as One-Shot, then Limited Series, then Main Series based on the amount of released issues. These last four lists should find issues and correct them.
6.8.1 One-Shot¶
Download smart list: 6.8.1 One-Shot.cbl
This finds comics that where previously tagged and organized as One-Shot and has changed format.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Fix format if needed
Scripts
None
6.8.2 Limited Series¶
Download smart list: 6.8.2 Limited Series.cbl
This finds comics that where previously tagged and organized as Limited Series and has changed format.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Fix format if needed
Scripts
None
6.8.3 Main Series¶
Download smart list: 6.8.3 Main Series.cbl
This finds comics that where previously tagged and organized as Main Series and has changed format.
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Fix format if needed
Scripts
None
6.8.4 Run LO since Format has Changed¶
Download smart list: 6.8.4 Run LO since Format has changed.cbl
This should find all the comics that are organized wrong. You can run Library Organizer on this set of comics to fix their location.
An introduction to Library Organizer can be found in 08 - Library Organizer
Column Layout
| State | Series | Format | Original Format | Format OK |
Action
Right-click -> Automation -> Library Organizer (Quick)
Scripts