Tag browser and Tags

[Rellwood]

Im trying to wrap my head around a bit of a dilema here.

Heirarchal tags only look good in one place - the Calibre tag browser. When you have thousands of books heirarchal tags are often a necessity. I have heirarchal tags that generally go three deep. the middle tag is usually a descriptor. Sci-Fi.Genre.Dystopia because I put character, themes, tropes and other info under genres and other types of tags and I like grouping them together.

All plugins and metadata sources use the "tags" column by default and sometimes (tag mapper, metadata downloads) you cannot change that. I know there must be some reason for this because not having the option to change where tags are mapped or downloaded to really limits things. The copying and moving from one column into tags just to get "tags" to upload or map or whatever is a real time consumer.

Anyhow, I am trying to figure out exactly what it is that I am looking for - for example I am using book fusion plugin (and I posted on there too) and they use the tags column as a default "tags" in their library, so now all my tags in Bookfusion are annoyingly long.

I know you can change a tag virtually in the tag browser because you can do that with a click on that particular tag - but is there a possibility of doing a map between them - for example

I use "Speculative.Genre.Dystopian" because it looks good in the browser - but I would much rather see "Dystopian" in the actual column or wherever else a tag would show. So, I am we are not expected to manually click on a tag in the browser and hand edit it from there so that it's changed virtually?

If there was a way of having downloads somehow filter between the tag in the browser and the tag used for "tag" purposes outside Calibre - like Book Jackets (yes I know I can "change" them but I never really figured that one out), tag mapping rules, metadata downloads (I suppose I need to go to the sources for that), however, if somehow CALIBRE can make it so that no matter from where a tag shows up - it maps so that the heirarchal or however i want to see it in the browser shows up there, but in "reality" it has a different mapped tag?

Does this make sense?