[chaley]

Originally Posted by shinykari

Is there a way to pull a "Name" formatted column into a Column, Built from Other Columns (Behaves like tags)?

My #koboshelves composite column template is



It pulls in the #fandom and #pairing data, but the #characters data, which is in a column that's formatted as "Ampersand formatted text, show in tags browser" and as "Names," doesn't populate.

It works fine for me.

Here is my column definition for the column like your #characters.


Here is the template for my composite column


Here is the result, shown in the book list.


Do note that there can be problems copying data from a 'contains names' column (& separated) to a 'like tags' column (comma separated). If a name contains a comma than it is considered 2 tags. If this is possible then you should use re() to convert the commas into something else, perhaps a semicolon.

Also note that the tags in "like tags" composites are sorted. The order won't be the implied order in the template.

Right now I created a work around by using Action Chains to manually copy the info from the #characters column into a new plain "Comma separated text" column and pulling THAT into the #koboshelves column, but I'd like to remove that extra step if possible.

ETA: And another question! Is there an easy way (preferably using mass edit/search & replace) to take information from the #pairing column (formatted as Character A/Character B) and copy that into a #characters column as Character A & Character B?

Yes, using search & replace in regexp mode. Something like this:


Here is the booklist before running the S&R


And after running the S&R