new tags from authors?

vikarti · 01-05-2024, 07:30 AM

Is it possible to add tags based on book author in automated way?
Like this.
Library contains
Book1 by Author1
Book2 by Author2
Book3 by Author2 & Author3 & Author4 (all 3 are seen as separate authors by Calibre)
Book 1 should get additional tag !authors.Author1
Book 2 should get additional tag !authors.Author2
Book 3 should get additional tags !authors.Author2 / !authors.Author3 / !authors.Author4

Reason for this: I do use reading tool which allows clicking on tag in book card and it filters by tag but it doesn't allow to do same by author (filtering by author use done using other, more complex and (in my opinion) user-unfriendly way).

BetterRed · 01-05-2024, 02:36 PM

You might be able to do it with the User Categories feature, see ==>> User Manual: Tag browser

The feature is also accessible via a Manage Categories action item that can be added to toolbars and menus, and there's a User Categories optional plugin.

BR

vikarti · 01-06-2024, 12:15 AM

Got almost what I need needed using Action Chains plugin (except that I decided to go via custom series column and not messing with existing 'tags' column, this got me same results, reading system in question allows to filter by multiple series columns)

01-05-2024, 07:30 AM	#1
vikarti Groupie Posts: 180 Karma: 1004974 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Solar system, Earth Device: none	new tags from authors? Is it possible to add tags based on book author in automated way? Like this. Library contains Book1 by Author1 Book2 by Author2 Book3 by Author2 & Author3 & Author4 (all 3 are seen as separate authors by Calibre) Book 1 should get additional tag !authors.Author1 Book 2 should get additional tag !authors.Author2 Book 3 should get additional tags !authors.Author2 / !authors.Author3 / !authors.Author4 Reason for this: I do use reading tool which allows clicking on tag in book card and it filters by tag but it doesn't allow to do same by author (filtering by author use done using other, more complex and (in my opinion) user-unfriendly way).

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01-05-2024, 02:36 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,586 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	You might be able to do it with the User Categories feature, see ==>> User Manual: Tag browser The feature is also accessible via a Manage Categories action item that can be added to toolbars and menus, and there's a User Categories optional plugin. BR

01-06-2024, 12:15 AM	#3
vikarti Groupie Posts: 180 Karma: 1004974 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Solar system, Earth Device: none	Got almost what I need needed using Action Chains plugin (except that I decided to go via custom series column and not messing with existing 'tags' column, this got me same results, reading system in question allows to filter by multiple series columns)

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