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Hello, I'm fairly new to using fff and I am having some trouble understanding the Saved Metadata column and how it can be used. This forum has been a massive help to me so far but I cannot figure out how to use the saved metadata to update other custom columns.
Up until now I have been using settings in my personal.ini to put metadata like characters, rating, status, fandoms, and update date into my custom columns. I was even able to adapt some code from a user on this forum to categorize my stories by word count range in a composite column.
Recently I was able to set up a custom column for Saved Metadata according to the fff wiki description and got it to populate when I updated a story's metadata from the website. Based on previous discussions I have found, I am supposed to be able to use this column to update other composite columns using Update Calibre Metadata from Saved Metadata Column. However, I cannot figure out how getting metadata from Saved Metadata column into composite columns works despite the many discussions and examples surrounding it here.
I feel like I am missing something extremely obvious at this point. Say for example I have metadata for an AO3 story in my Saved Metadata column and I want to update a new column with freeform tags using it instead of the website. Do I need to add something to my personal.ini specifically to make this work? Do I need to configure a column meant to be filed by Saved Metadata in a specific way in fff configuration setting? What template do I need to use for the freeform tag composite column? Since my Saved Metadata column is a long text interpreted as plain text I have no idea how to extract information from it like one would with, say, an existing word count column.
If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it. My main goal right now is to get information from one place to another so that I know how for the future. Thank you!
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