[mobichuck]

I use the Tags field to represent Genres for fiction (indicated by Suffixing the tag with a tilde ('~')) and, for nonfiction, I assign a tag with an exclamation appended ('!").

So, I might have tags like this:

Jules Verne, 20k Under
Tags: Classics~, Science Fiction~


History of the United States
Tags: History!


I currently use the plugin to make collections in two passes.

First pass: purge collections, make collections with prefix "__Genre/" for each tag including '~'. This works wonderfully, and I use search and replace in a text editor to kill the ~ and ! chars.

Second pass: preserve collections, make collections with prefix "___Nonfiction/" for tags including a ! char.

This works wonderfully, and gives me:

___Nonfiction/History!
__Genre/Classics~
__Genre/Science Fiction~

The extraneous chars are stripped out with a srch/replace, and I have no problems doing this two-step dance to get two different kinds of prefixes/include criteria for the tags.

It's the MIL factor that's currently killing me. I'd like to be able to give the Mother-In-Law the ability to do the same thing, but having to configure and run the plugin twice, being extremely particular about what's done when, would give her (and hence, me) no end of trouble.

Is there an easy way that I can do what I'm doing in a single step? I've tried reappropriating one of the other items (Publishers) to "Create" based on "Tags" (that field, "Calibre Source", in the plugin is editable), but that doesn't work.