[Enhancement] Additional functionality for tag hierarchies

[Nick Chomey]

As I get my tags in order and start to make some sensible hierarchies (what a fantastic feature!), I find I'm moving them around a lot, consolidating many existing ones below a broader tag, etc... This takes a far bit of effort of renaming each parent and child tag to the new path.

Is there any possibility to be able to drag a tag name in the Tag Browser to another tag in order to become its child? It would work whether moving from Level 1 to any lower level, or from a lower level to a higher one. If a tag has children, they would be moved as well.

Completely understood if this is far beyond the current capability of the hierarchy function.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Changing the component for this bug.

 assignee cbhaley
 status triaged

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

Sorry, but this is way too much work for something I would never use.

[Nick Chomey (nick-chomey)]

Understood. However, I do think this is a tremendously useful feature, so I have a more limited suggestion that *seems* do-able as it is effectively the same as renaming tags manually: forget about moving the children and only move/rename the selected/dragged tag, which would *simply* require the dragged tag to be renamed to the New Parent Tag + "." + Existing Tag Name.

The children of the dragged tags would remain behind, thus a "dummy" parent would stay there as well. But this already happens when I manually rename/move a tag. Once the children tags are also renamed, the "dummy" parent disappears.

e.g. I want to put the History hierarchy within the Nonfiction one.
Origial:
History (10)
History.American (6)
History.American.Civil War (3)
Nonfiction (100)

Final:
Nonfiction (110)
Nonfiction.History (10)
Nonfiction.History.American (6)
Nonfiction.History.American.Civil War (3)

The simplified proposal would be to only move/rename one tag at a time. If that happens to be History, you get

History (6)
History.American (6)
History.American.Civil War (3)
Nonfiction (104)
Nonfiction.History (4)

If I then rename/drag History.American to Nonfiction.History.American, it looks like

History (3)
History.American (3)
History.American.Civil War (3)
Nonfiction (107)
Nonfiction.History (7)
Nonfiction.History.American (3)

and finally after renaming/dragging the Civil War child, the History hierarchy disappears altogether.
Nonfiction (110)
Nonfiction.History (10)
Nonfiction.History.American (6)
Nonfiction.History.American.Civil War (3)

The net effect is that I can drag the 3 (or, in reality, dozens/hundreds of) tags in 3 seconds vs multiple clicks and typing to rename them - maybe 30 seconds? Multipled across dozens or even hundreds of tags (and users) and the time savings adds up.

This appears to be possible, but I know nothing about actual coding and of course defer to your expertise and inclination. If still rejected, could it at least be left in a list of Open/Maybe/Wishlist enhancements rather than Wont Fix/Rejected?

Thanks for all your hard work and extreme responsiveness!

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased