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Old 06-09-2013, 02:05 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
No, only builtin columns are supported, but you can use the bulk metadata edit dialog to transfer data froma builtin column to a custom one.
I get what you're saying about using the bulk edit feature, it's what I do now. I was just hoping to streamline it a bit.

What you're saying about builtin columns leaves me a little confused though. The Tags column is a builtin column, yes? Does that mean I could use a regular expression to add info from the filename as I'm importing the books? If so how? I tried the following expression:

(?P<tags>.+) - (?P<title>.+) - (?P<author>[^_]+)

using this as a sample file:

Fantasy - Title - Author.txt

And while it properly picked up the Title and Author it didn't pick up Fantasy as a tag.

Thanks,

Beth
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