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davidfor · 04-22-2014, 11:18 PM

Interesting idea. And my first reaction was that it would work. But, I did some playing and I'm not as sure.

The problem is search results. I made a quick change to the utilities plugin to add the tags as the subtitle. The following are four of the values set:

Code:

t::Science Fiction t::Fantasy
t::Science Fiction
t::Science Fiction t::Young Adult t::Fantasy
t::Science Fiction t::Action & Adventure

When I searched for "t::science", the initial results list showed all of the above. If I selected "t::Science Fiction", I got all the books that had that as part of the subtitle. That worked nicely.

It worked because I had a book that "Science Fiction" as its only tag. Searching for "Fantasy" didn't work as well. I don't have any books that have "Fantasy" as their only tag. When the initial search results comes back, there isn't an entry I can select to display all the books with "Fantasy" as a tag. I have to press the "Go" button down the bottom to do that search. That still works, but it might not be as good.

One other thing, while doing the searches I found that the colon isn't a good separator. I had to change keyboards to use it.

Geoff: I have sent you a PM.

04-22-2014, 11:18 PM	#2
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	Interesting idea. And my first reaction was that it would work. But, I did some playing and I'm not as sure. The problem is search results. I made a quick change to the utilities plugin to add the tags as the subtitle. The following are four of the values set: Code: t::Science Fiction t::Fantasy t::Science Fiction t::Science Fiction t::Young Adult t::Fantasy t::Science Fiction t::Action & Adventure When I searched for "t::science", the initial results list showed all of the above. If I selected "t::Science Fiction", I got all the books that had that as part of the subtitle. That worked nicely. It worked because I had a book that "Science Fiction" as its only tag. Searching for "Fantasy" didn't work as well. I don't have any books that have "Fantasy" as their only tag. When the initial search results comes back, there isn't an entry I can select to display all the books with "Fantasy" as a tag. I have to press the "Go" button down the bottom to do that search. That still works, but it might not be as good. One other thing, while doing the searches I found that the colon isn't a good separator. I had to change keyboards to use it. Geoff: I have sent you a PM.