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ILB · 07-23-2015, 04:25 PM

Hi,
I made a custum column for the characters.
It´s automatically filled by a setting in index tab "costum column".
The column is defined as "comma separated text, like tags, shown in the tag browser" and "contains names" is marked.
That works so far and I get an entry in these column with the characters.

example: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6589301/1/

Except that all characters are put in the column als one tag:
"Burton G./Gus, John W." etc.
But I´d like to have each person as an individually tag.

I found that to get separate tags I have to replace the comma with an "&".
(I have no idea why because I selected "comma separated text" and the characters are separated with comma...)

I tried it by manually changing each of these tags (via tag browser) to separate tags by replacing each comma with "&".
But that´s a lot of work and if I update a story my changed tags are overwritten and I´m back with the original entry ("Burton G./Gus, John W.") as one tag.

How do I get each character as a separate tag and how can I avoid that my changed entries are overwritten?

07-23-2015, 04:25 PM	#430
ILB Groupie Posts: 173 Karma: 8098 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Germany Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Oasis	custom columns: characters / single tags Hi, I made a custum column for the characters. It´s automatically filled by a setting in index tab "costum column". The column is defined as "comma separated text, like tags, shown in the tag browser" and "contains names" is marked. That works so far and I get an entry in these column with the characters. example: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6589301/1/ Except that all characters are put in the column als one tag: "Burton G./Gus, John W." etc. But I´d like to have each person as an individually tag. I found that to get separate tags I have to replace the comma with an "&". (I have no idea why because I selected "comma separated text" and the characters are separated with comma...) I tried it by manually changing each of these tags (via tag browser) to separate tags by replacing each comma with "&". But that´s a lot of work and if I update a story my changed tags are overwritten and I´m back with the original entry ("Burton G./Gus, John W.") as one tag. How do I get each character as a separate tag and how can I avoid that my changed entries are overwritten? Last edited by ILB; 07-23-2015 at 04:38 PM.