Customize tags

[zenibako]

The tag feature is awesome; I was literally about to implement my own version of it, and I'm glad to see that something already exists.

The current standard tag types are great, but I'd like to repurpose some of them to make more sense in the context of a stage play (entrances, exits, sound effects, ect.)

Being able to extend the existing tag types would enable authors to add more context to their scripts and make this awesome feature even better.

[lmparppei]

The main issue is that I'm trying to keep Beat tagging compatible with Final Draft tags, because that's what basically all scheduling and budgeting apps support, so the tagging system is very much inherited from there.

If someone is interested in looking at adding new tags to the system, I'd be very glad to do that! The system is pretty extensible, although it's duct-taped together a little currently. The system requires a lot of conversion between FDX and Beat tag names, including plural forms of names. This is probably caused by backwards-compatibility in Final Draft.

Making the system expandable would require saving the custom tag colors to document and so on, but it's not at all impossible even in the current iteration, and well within the means of basic API. UI-side would require the most work.

This won't be on my roadmap for now, just because of the sheer amount of UI work it requires and because of some technical debt elsewhere in the app, but I'll be glad to help if someone wants to look into implementing this!

[zenibako]

Ah, I see. That makes tons of sense. Yeah, I might give this a shot at some point. :)

[bode-p]

@zenibako,

I also love the new tagging feature; it inspired me to create a similar plugin specifically for tagging story elements. I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for, but take a look at "Keywords" in the plugin library.