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Originally Posted by Sunshine82
The issue that I foresee is that if I build one column from another (i.e. basing my customized Genre column off of the Tags column), I can mine the content/vocab from Tags but wouldn't be able to specify the context/logic for the Genre column. In other words, is it possible to replicate the arbitrary user-defined hierarchy of a customized column (like what I created for Genre) in a way that is systematic and applies globally to an entire library independently of particular pre-existing book entries? Does this make sense? I am wondering if there is a more efficient way of creating and assigning genre hierarchies to a bulk range of books.
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I'm not really clear on what exactly you are hoping to accomplish here. Perhaps some concrete examples would help to clarify. I see a long and detailed hierarchy in your attached screenshot but what might help more is a few books, the values you want to use for your Tags field for those books, and what you want your Genre field to look like for them (and how much of that you want to be automatic). If you've already tried something and you're getting errors, it would be helpful to see what you've tried and what the errors say, too.
Despite the confusion I expressed above, it also seems like you want to pre-define values for your Genre hierarchy without first having to apply these values to individual books. The
Entities Manager plugin might be what you are seeking, which allows you to manage a value for a particular column
independently of any book records, although I don't use it myself so can't speak from firsthand experience.