Automatic columns for tagboards with subtags

[naxey]

This feature would automatically create a column in the tagboard named after the marked section in the nested tag. It would also allow for a negative prompt to specify tags that should not auto-generate lists in the tagboard.

The proposed settings naming scheme for automatic population:

These settings would create columns for any nested tags with the parent tag #parent-tag/... but not the tag #parent-tag/ignored-tag or the tag #parent-tag without nesting.

Using these settings, the tag #parent-tag/suggestions would create the column suggestions but the tag #parent-tag/ignored-tag would not create a column.

For reference this is the official naming scheme for tags:

You can use any of the following characters in your tags:

Alphabetical letters
Numbers
Underscore (_)
Hyphen (-)
Forward slash (/) for Nested tags
Tags must contain at least one non-numerical character.

[roovo]

This is certainly something I have thought about supporting! It would have worked really nicely with the way boards used to be defined as (as you have said) it would be an option for a special type of tag board. Now I have moved away from defining boards in this way (a board is now more of a collection of separately defined columns) this fits in less well (the main reason I moved to a board being a collection of separate columns was for easy tracking of their order for drag and drop).

I can still think of ways of doing this, but they are all a bit more awkward than they were, both conceptually and in implementation - hah, progress!

Before this change, there were some aspects I never bottomed out, like what to do if a tag/subtag combination is removed from the vault (because all lines with it on are deleted), should I remove the column from the board. Should I only look at tasks when picking the tag/sub-tag combinations or should I look at the complete vault?

I am definitely still mulling this over!

[myndatlas]

While I appreciate the drag and drop, I really miss the ability to rapidly copy/paste the same status columns to a new board with the old method. It's so much more tedious now.

[roovo]

I hear you - one thing that might help (when I get to implemting it) could be the ability to duplicte boards - #196. Although I do agree that the ability to quickly type some tags into a text input was massively convenient - will keep this in mind as I develop things further!