Manual sorting by metadata

[acorazza]

First off - I love this plugin!

I wonder if it's possible to assign a manual order to metadata sorting, as we can already do for folder and files? The documentation for metadata sorting only mentions alphabetical. Right now I have:

    target-folder: Projects
    > a-z by-metadata: tags

I tried this instead but it doesn't work (note how it's non-alphabetical). Is it possible and I just have the syntax wrong?

    target-folder: Projects
    by-metadata: tags
    work
    business
    personal

[SebastianMC]

Hi @acorazza

this is not supported yet.

A year ago a similar feature request was raised (#195) and implementation for it is almost completed and awaiting in this PR #196

Unfortunately, I created a solution which is too-robust, thus complex to test, requires tons of unit tests to guarantee correctness and no regression bugs. During testing I encountered some edge cases requiring to be covered, some missing scenarios, so the way to merge and release is a bit longer than I expected.

For the tags metadata specifically, as far as I remember, it is by design an array, to support multiple tags. And even if only a single tag is specified, that metadata comes (at code level) as an array (with a single item). Matching values against arrays requires some non-trivial logic and support for multi-value matches.

So, the syntax goes below (and it is already available in the mentioned PR #196), yet I can't tell when it will be released.

target-folder: Projects
  with-metadata: tags matching: value(work)
  with-metadata: tags matching: value(business)
  with-metadata: tags matching: value(personal)

[acorazza]

Nice, thanks! I'm no good with JS/TS but I can help test this if needed.