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Originally Posted by goldilocks
If by mechanical, you mean automatically have the system do it. No, I have to put the first letter for each book in the column. I was trying to figure out if a plug-in would work but couldn't wrap my mind around it, yet.
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By mechanical I mean a process that does not require human reasoning and discretion. It would have a small number of rules that fully describe what is to happen.
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Yes, I have my sort set to "strictly-alphabetic. I have about 650 ebooks starting with "The" and in the tag browser using my column they are broken down further by The.A, The.B, The.C, etc. Sure cuts down on reviewing the titles.
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I hope it is set to "strictly_alphabetic", an underscore instead of a dash. If you used a dash then it almost certainly isn't working correctly.
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If I did a "column built from other columns" would I be able to get the hierarchy of A.A, A.B, A.C, The.A, The.B...? I have also used a comma in a few places where there is the main title with a colon and then the title of that eBook (like an eBook of 3 that I split and kept the original title: eBook title.)
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Using commas in tags-like columns isn't recommended, and probably doesn't work in many cases. The comma separates tag values and cannot be used internally to a value.
Yes, columns built from other columns can be hierarchical.