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Originally Posted by Gary_M_Mugford
Chaley,
I worked through a tagging system a couple of years back. But changes in calibre (accepting a folder, to read in automatically) and the way my friend worked his system between the now three campuses, made me rethink things. And I came up with the solution I outlined waaaaay above. And it really does work. I'm just worried it will stop working due to limitations in Windows more than anything else.
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Gary, you sound like you have things well under control. That said, your answer implies that I didn't explain what I said well enough, so even though this message is probably superfluous ...
A user category is not a tag. Instead it is a collection of metadata items such as authors, series, publishers, or tags, providing a level of indirection. For example, you could create a user category called "Favorite authors" and populate it with authors you like. Same with series. They appear in the tag browser, can be opened to see their contents (like other categories), edited, and searched. You can drag n drop metadata items onto the category to add them. When you search using a user category, it (in effect) does a search for each item in the category and 'or's the results together.
The advantage of the user category is that the TA can easily see the list of names in the category by opening the category. This is harder when using saved searches. Not a lot harder, though. However, since your are asking the TAs to send you emails, clearly they know who is in their sections. Instead of sending emails they could drag the student's name into 'their' user category.
Another thing to mention: the calibredb command can create a saved search. You might be able to maintain the saved searches using this command, but it might not be worth fighting with the shell to get the arguments quoted correctly.