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Originally Posted by chaley
I don't think it would be hard... to add searching of the form #foo*:query, where #foo* means any custom field beginning with foo.
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I've only been adding awards for about a week. I'm leaning toward the #award[1-5] system, but it probably makes sense for me to try it out before considering ways to make searching easier. I'm comfortable with complex searches #award1:=Hugo or #award2:=Hugo or #award3:=Hugo, etc.
As long as I have your interest - I vaguely recall some discussion by you of considering support for multivalued tags as in "Hugo=1995, Nebula=1996,Science Fiction" etc. and you could search for the values of the tags.
Did the custom columns replace that idea?
One thought I had when setting this up was that I'd merely use tags as above - "Hugo=1995, Nebula=1996" - either in a tag-like custom #award column or in the main tags field. Even though such tags are not multivalued, I could still find all Hugo awards with the search tag:Hugo and see the year in the tag.
I decided I liked my current series-like custom column system better as it let me sort by year and (with your new improvements) find all within a year range or after a specified year.