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masp · 11-05-2018, 08:50 PM

Thanks @chaley: out of curiosity, how does the parsing work with the "comma-separated text like tags" column when "contains names" is selected? That does get parsed as a list (as indeed does the authors column), despite (or indeed due to) having ampersand as separator: ie. if I enter "bob & jane" then I see "bob" and "jane" as separate entities in the tag browser. I had hoped that because that column type could be split on "&" (with the "contains names" option selected) then so could the "behaves like tags" composite column (if that same option was available in that context).

11-05-2018, 08:50 PM	#12
masp Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2014 Device: ipad air	Thanks @chaley: out of curiosity, how does the parsing work with the "comma-separated text like tags" column when "contains names" is selected? That does get parsed as a list (as indeed does the authors column), despite (or indeed due to) having ampersand as separator: ie. if I enter "bob & jane" then I see "bob" and "jane" as separate entities in the tag browser. I had hoped that because that column type could be split on "&" (with the "contains names" option selected) then so could the "behaves like tags" composite column (if that same option was available in that context).