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Originally Posted by peaceridge
What I would like is an option NOT to sort within the tag name at all - leave it just like I enter it.
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Not going to happen. The required information is not in the database.
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For example, I would like to have a value that says: "Health, Diet" and one that says "Heath, Vitamins", so that when I sort on the tag column all the Health are together instead of "Diet, Health" coming before "Health, Vitamins" or "Health, Diet" coming before "Vitamins, Health" - depending on whether it is ascending or descending. I've tried creating my own column, but got things like [1] at the end of the values.
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Why did you use a series column? A text or enumeration column would have worked better. Or a text-tags-like if there are more than one Health:... applied to a book
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UPDATE: As I was writing this, I had an idea that works perfectly - use a ":", so that I enter "Health: Vitamins" and "Health: Diet", sorts great and looks just like I entered them. I'm going to go ahead and post this (even though I have my answer) just in case someone else is looking through this thread for this kind of problem. Hopefully, using a colon won't cause some other problem in the database.
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Other than suggesting that you don't put the space after the colon, this should work fine. Colons have no special meaning to calibre. Note, though, that if you try to use this field in a file template, and if you use Windows (and possibly the others), the colon will be turned into an underscore. Colons are illegal in windows file names.