Implement nested tags with separator & allow referencing tags in Filters & Custom File Naming settings
manalive opened this issue · comments
This solves a whole bunch of use cases
- "Please add this column", "make this random thing that only I use searchable", etc.
- "Please let me use this obscure, changing parameter in filepath settings"
My main challenge is that I have to maintain a library of folder formatting options for different kinds of audiobooks with different uses or management workflows.
This involves three functions:
- Allowing the use of a separator in tags to produce a hierarchy
- Allowing users to specify a tag prefix in file naming settings
- Handling the new tag convention in filtering
Here is one example (real) use case that would apply to me:
- I am setting up the required books for my children's school curriculum.
- I have multiple children in multiple grades with required book lists from Year 1 to Year 12. Almost all of the books are available on Audible.)
- I put a tag of "school:Y1" and "subject:History" (assuming ":" as a separator but maybe "|" or something would be better since Filters already use ":")
The "tags" filter should now work like "contains" instead of exact
- tags:school should return all tags containing school (ex: "school:Y1", "school:Y2" etc.) the same way other string fields work. Currently this only returns items with a tag of "school" (which is actually kind of a bug since it doesn't work the same way as other string fields)
- tags:"school" should return only items with the "school" tag
Then, in the Custom File Naming section I could use a path like this:
downloads\<if tag:school->SCHOOL\<tag:school>\<tag:subject><-if tag:school>
This assumes a simple two-level hierarchy. Obviously, more use could be gotten out of multiple levels, which would increase the complexity. If that was implemented maybe using a [n] reference with the tag would help, ex: "school[2] to grab the "Geography" in "school:Y5:Geography"