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africalass · 07-16-2011, 10:50 AM

Hi

I would be eternally grateful if someone could give me a hand with the template for a custom column. I have been reading the page at Template Language - but as this is all so new to me I'm struggling a bit.

I would like to move whether I've read a book from 'Read' or 'NotRead' being a tag in the tags column to having its own custom column. I don't mind whether the new column has two values (tickbox yes/no), or whether it has three options (read, reading, not-read). I understand how to create a column that I could put this information in manually - but how can I extract this information from the tags?

On a slightly different issue, I have created a custom column of my tags (#tags). To do this I simply used the template {tags} when I created the column. I have done this because I would like to keep my own (limited) list of tags, but I would like to download other people's tags from the internet and keep the two separate. However, it continues to update the My Tags column when a new tag goes in the main Tags column. How can I stop it from updating - I want the custom column to be left as it is now. I would also like to be edit this custom column manually (ie treat it as the original Tags column). I have looked at threads like this one, but am afraid I haven't figured it out. Also I can't watch the video mentioned in the manual (I have a very slow internet connection).

Sorry for asking what is probably very basic for most people. Thanks for your time.

07-16-2011, 10:50 AM	#1
africalass Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Various - sometimes UK, sometimes South Africa, sometimes other countries in Europe / Africa Device: Windows Laptop; Kindle Keyboard; Hudl2 (Android), iPhone	Help with template for custom column from tags Hi I would be eternally grateful if someone could give me a hand with the template for a custom column. I have been reading the page at Template Language - but as this is all so new to me I'm struggling a bit. I would like to move whether I've read a book from 'Read' or 'NotRead' being a tag in the tags column to having its own custom column. I don't mind whether the new column has two values (tickbox yes/no), or whether it has three options (read, reading, not-read). I understand how to create a column that I could put this information in manually - but how can I extract this information from the tags? On a slightly different issue, I have created a custom column of my tags (#tags). To do this I simply used the template {tags} when I created the column. I have done this because I would like to keep my own (limited) list of tags, but I would like to download other people's tags from the internet and keep the two separate. However, it continues to update the My Tags column when a new tag goes in the main Tags column. How can I stop it from updating - I want the custom column to be left as it is now. I would also like to be edit this custom column manually (ie treat it as the original Tags column). I have looked at threads like this one, but am afraid I haven't figured it out. Also I can't watch the video mentioned in the manual (I have a very slow internet connection). Sorry for asking what is probably very basic for most people. Thanks for your time.