Feature Request: Tag Update Tag Referencing

[simoncn]

I hadn't understood that the Compilation=1 tag would be used to control an external script rather than beng used by MinimServer. Now that I understand this, your scheme seems reasonable.

I understand your other proposal but I think the syntax is too complicated for most users who don't have programming experience. My current thought (still at a very early stage) is to introduce the concept of filters and actions in a fairly general way. Returning to your original requirement and excluding punctuation, the filter would be [Genre='Classical'] or perhaps now [Compilation='1'] or [Compilation] and the action would be Title.displayFormat={$composer$titletag$movementnumber$movement}. You could also have another filter [!Genre='Classical'] with a different formatting action for that.

This requires more typing than your proposed syntax but it is a simple concept that could be applied in many places and could perhaps in future be used in a UI that composes filters (from a list) with actions (from another list).

I am not keen on extending tagUpdate processing because editing a text file to make things happen isn't really a suitable UI for most users.