Moving tags to either a user category or a custom column

[Tiggy626]

I have attempted both creating a user category and creating a custom column, but neither do what I want to do.

I am probably doing something wrong, but I can't figure it out.

I would like to actually move tags into a new spot (category,column,etc).
By this I mean that the tags would no longer contain the information (i.e. Genre). The information would ONLY be in the new category/column/etc.

Is such a thing possible? I'm thinking of it as being like Publisher, which is not a tag, but it is only in the Publisher category/column.

Thanks,
Tiggy626

[BetterRed]

@Tiggy626 one way would be to create a custom column called "Genre", then search Tags for your different genre values, e.g. "History", then use bulk metadata edit on those books to put "History" into the Genre column and remove it from the Tags column.

Then at the end of that process, search for books that don't have a value in Genre (i.e. Genre:false), go down the list and edit the Genre column to the appropriate value using the F2 key.

It may also be possible to use the Consolidate All Library Metadata plugin or regex functions in Bulk Metadata Search and Replace to do it all in one step. Perhaps some other responders might pick up on those possibilities.

BR

[Tiggy626]

Thanks for the help! I didn't realize I had to remove the tag, not just add to the column.

Tiggy626

[Mrs_Often]

Take a look here for a much faster way: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=156518

[Tiggy626]

Originally Posted by Mrs_Often

Take a look here for a much faster way: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=156518

This is indeed a much easier way to move all tags from the 'Tag' column to the 'Genre' column. Thanks for the recommendation!

However, my question was not described properly to begin with. I am using the plug-in FanFicFare, which has the ability to populate user columns automatically. It does not, however, remove those tags from the 'Tag' column. For example, I have created a column 'Characters', which is automatically populated but the characters are still in the 'Tags' column. is there any easy way to eliminate duplicate tags across columns?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Tiggy626

This is indeed a much easier way to move all tags from the 'Tag' column to the 'Genre' column. Thanks for the recommendation!

However, my question was not described properly to begin with. I am using the plug-in FanFicFare, which has the ability to populate user columns automatically. It does not, however, remove those tags from the 'Tag' column. For example, I have created a column 'Characters', which is automatically populated but the characters are still in the 'Tags' column. is there any easy way to eliminate duplicate tags across columns?

I can't immediately think of how to do that, but, I think you should be able to prevent this with FFF. There is per-site configuration that change what is treated as a tag. I think the default is pretty much everything, but I'd suggest asking in the FFF thread for help with the configuration so that the characters don't go into the tags column.