Thread: Auto-tag with custom column data
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Old 01-21-2016, 06:39 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by lazorbeam View Post
Sorry, to clarify - I do use FanficFare as well as the AO3's download option or other sources. Both of these do include metadata but, with the nature of fanfic, that stuff is sometimes a mess. I don't always find it consistent for searching and often delete it.
FFF includes a lot of stuff to handle the metadata on the site. I'm by no means an expert and just use the simplest changes for the few times I use it. But, there is a lot of discussion in the FFF thread about this.
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If I'm reading davidfor's post right, I don't want to *update* my Customn Column - I want to take my tidy manually-added info and apply it to the tags. And yeah, I'm not sure how it would work. The best I was thinking was that it could somehow be applied during a Convert or Polish process. I know you can update book metadata during Polish but I believe that assumes the tags are already as desire.
OK, I read your request as how to populate the custom column,

As you have the values in the custom column already, you should be able to use "Search & replace" in the bulk medatata editor to add the values from the custom column to the tags column.
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