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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Thanks for letting us know you have a solution.
I tried the User Categories approach, but it wasn't suitable for me because the User Categories plugin doesn't support custom columns.
I must confess I don't use the Metadata Copy & Paste technique on my Books library. I use it on my Media and Journal libraries, which have less than 200 and 50 Authors respectively. This makes it easy to find a 'real book' by the same Author with the metadata I want to apply to the 'book' just added.
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Hi, I'm sorry, think I have misspoken a little, I'm using the Categories Browser (Tag Browser): for now I'm using cross searches a lot, by clicking on a specific category item (tags, author or other values), and add or exclude other items from that search by clicking two or more times on them. It's a valid way to find books that already have been associated to tags, and my purpose was to find a solution for adding tags based on author features.
So I created just one column for the nationality, that's useful cause now I have a new category automatically filled with every value I put in this column. This helps a lot, doesn't solve the adding values problem though. I'm not sure I will create other columns for author's historic period activity, for example, I have a category for that, tag-based.
I checked out the method you suggested for copyng metadata, it's been a little tricky but I finally got it, the hard part is to add literally every field of metadata that you don't want to include on the copying process, because even author sort and title sort are included in this thing, and I'm not sure my list of excluded fields is complete at 100%
I don't like the idea to overwrite fields that I'm not even aware of.