Editing Tags Hierarchy

[enonod]

I discovered that I had mis-tagged books as B and decided that they should be A.B. A did not yet exist. I selected some books and edited the metadata adding A. in front of all the Bs. It worked brilliantly but was laborious.
I was unable to find a way to do this under Bulk changes without deleting and recreating Tags, so I used single mode.

I also tried amending a book with A.B and then tried to drag B in the Tag Browser to sit under A but that is not possible.

I looked for a way to amend the Tags alone (Tag Editor) without using the Books hoping that by changing the Tags hierarchy, the books would follow automatically. No.

I am hoping that somebody can show me that such a thing does exist, and I missed it, ready for next time.

[chaley]

Option 1: Right-click on the tag in the tag browser and choose "Rename".

Option 2: use bulk edit search replace as shown in the following screen shot.

[aleyx]

Originally Posted by enonod

I discovered that I had mis-tagged books as B and decided that they should be A.B. A did not yet exist. I selected some books and edited the metadata adding A. in front of all the Bs. It worked brilliantly but was laborious.
I was unable to find a way to do this under Bulk changes without deleting and recreating Tags, so I used single mode.

I also tried amending a book with A.B and then tried to drag B in the Tag Browser to sit under A but that is not possible.

I looked for a way to amend the Tags alone (Tag Editor) without using the Books hoping that by changing the Tags hierarchy, the books would follow automatically. No.

I am hoping that somebody can show me that such a thing does exist, and I missed it, ready for next time.

You can edit the tag itself in the tag navigation (right-click/rename on a tag), or from the tag editor (open an "edit metadata" window, click on the icon on the left of the "tags" field). The change will be made across all books.

Also, if you rename for exemple "Fiction - SciFi" to "Fiction.Scifi", the "Fiction" tag will be created along with "Scifi", and every book tagged "Fiction - SciFi" will reflect the change.

(I think it's because "Fiction.Scifi" is not really two separate tags, it's just the tag navigator making it look like the latter is the child of the former. But from a database and book POV, it's really just one tag named "Fiction.Scifi")

EDIT: Aaaaaand once again I'm late. Ah well.

[enonod]

Thank you both very much, it works with the suggestions.
I think I was afraid to experiment with rename for example because I didn't know if I would screw everything.
I guess from your replies it does indeed do what it says on the tin.

@Aleyx: I guess it is simply down to what time you get up in the morning

[aleyx]

Originally Posted by enonod

Thank you both very much, it works with the suggestions.
I think I was afraid to experiment with rename for example because I didn't know if I would screw everything.
I guess from your replies it does indeed do what it says on the tin.

Tip: It also has hidden goodies. For exemple, you can fusion two tags by renaming one to the other:

- 200 books have "Fiction - Fantasy"
- 300 books have "Fiction: Fantasy"

Rename "Fiction: Fantasy" to "Fiction - Fantasy", you now have 500 books with "Fiction - Fantasy" and no more "Fiction: Fantasy". Now rename "Fiction - Fantasy" to "Fiction.Fantasy"...

It's what allowed me to correct my list of ~1500 tags (for 1200 books at the time), many of which were dupes.

[enonod]

Now that really is immediately useful and thank you for the clear explanation.
I find I am hooked on this database and cannot leave it alone, a bit like sheep eating grass.
Thanks