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Originally Posted by CJHusVar
I have a library for all my gaming items (roleplaying and board games). For these I have custom columns for things like 'Game System', 'Genre' and 'Setting'. What I would like to happen is that if I add an item to the 'Dungeons & Dragons' series, the other custom columns would get updated with the appropriate values automatically. Other series would have other values. It seems like I would need a lot of composite columns to accomplish this.
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In your example, you would need 3 composite columns: 'Game System', 'Genre', and 'Setting'. These would each use a template to compute the value(s) for a given book using the other metadata for that book.
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My wish (pipe dream?) would be to right-click on a series in the Tag Browser and have a menu item for 'Apply Metadata' and have a menu where I put in the values for the columns I want that series to have.
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This won't happen any time soon.
Assuming that the values are not arbitrary i.e. computable by a predefined template (program), you can get part way there by using bulk metadata global search and replace. You can use "template mode" to generate an set of values for a book that are then assigned to any one column in that book. In your example, you would need three saved search and replace specifications.