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davidfor · 03-25-2013, 07:44 AM

I don't use the news fetching myself, but from a brief look, you can set tags to be applied, but not values for custom columns. To use that, you would need to use the tags column as a shelf column on the driver configuration.

I can think of two other ways that might work, but I haven't played with them.

The Reading List plugin has an option to build a list from a search. If you have a list that does a search on the tags column for "News", that could create the appropriate list. The reading list also has an option to set a custom series column. If you set this to "News" and added the column as a shelf column, it should work.

The other possibility is to create a custom column built from other columns. You should be able to use a template to return a shelf name based on the "News" tag or the extra tag used in the configuration of the news download. But, I can't help with the template to do this.

03-25-2013, 07:44 AM	#3
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I don't use the news fetching myself, but from a brief look, you can set tags to be applied, but not values for custom columns. To use that, you would need to use the tags column as a shelf column on the driver configuration. I can think of two other ways that might work, but I haven't played with them. The Reading List plugin has an option to build a list from a search. If you have a list that does a search on the tags column for "News", that could create the appropriate list. The reading list also has an option to set a custom series column. If you set this to "News" and added the column as a shelf column, it should work. The other possibility is to create a custom column built from other columns. You should be able to use a template to return a shelf name based on the "News" tag or the extra tag used in the configuration of the news download. But, I can't help with the template to do this.