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Old 01-09-2024, 03:22 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Jackwc View Post
Hi all,

Was wondering if anyone knew of some way to have tags automatically added to a book if another tag is added. For instance, I might have the tag:

Subject.Wars & Conflicts.By Name.World War I

and the tag:

Subject.Wars & Conflicts.By Date.1914-1918 -- World War I

It would be nice if whenever I tag a book with "Subject.Wars & Conflicts.By Name.World War I" it automatically adds "Subject.Wars & Conflicts.By Date.1914-1918 -- World War I" as well so I don't have to do it manually.

Any ideas?
First thought was the Tag Mapper feature of Add books, viz:

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But that would only work if you wrangled the By Name tag into the embedded metadata before adding the book.

How do you assign the Tags to a Book, if you use the Manage items : Tags dialogue it should be easy to assign both at the same time.

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In the Book List that would be via Shift/F2 on the Tags cell, in the MDE it's the button to the left of the Tags field.

However, I would put the start-end years in a separate column and use Saved multi-term search expressions searches rather than shoehorning everything into Hierarchical Tags, but that's another conversation.

BR

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