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Originally Posted by itimpi
Not sure how many people make use of this option (default is to not use it)!
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Really? Ah, if I'd realized no one was using it that I would have reported it sooner. I figured that everyone was using split tags to get around the 'no custom columns' issue. I made a custom column called 'Move Tags' in Calibre that pieces together all my various custom columns into 'Status@Read' and 'Genre@Science Fiction' and 'Characters@James Potter' and stuff like that, and then I just do a global search and replace to copy that column directly into the Tags.
Rather unelegant, but it works, or it would work if it actually worked. Instead, everything ends up at the 'Characters' listing, as that is the first item on the page. (Except now it ends up at AA, because that's now the first item.) Like I said, for the longest time, I thought I was just doing something wrong and I must be misunderstanding how this should work, but it has to be some sort of bug.
If it did work, it rather neatly would solve the custom column issue. Instead of trying to deal with all that complexity, just have them put all the stuff in the Tags. Although it would be very clever to let people specify a user column to use *instead* of 'Tags', because using a generated column that can suck all the other columns in is easier.