Custom List Attributes - What am I doing wrong?

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Moderator: Mr_Noodle

OK, so I've tried to use this. Initially, I just didn't get it, but having read the documentation on the Hazel Help for this...about 7 times...I can see this could be super useful, so I started playing with it. I started with the most simple example that's already documented...copying tags from one file (or folder) to another. The rule setup seems to work in terms of matching and I've followed the example in the help documentation to replicate tags EXACTLY. It works except that the "list" of tags becomes a single concatenated text string and when I add the new dynamic tag, it just adds a single tag which is a concatenated set of the source tags rather than separate tags for each list item.

For example, the "source" file has 4 tags... "Property", "Invoice", "FY25", "123 Smith St"
The file being processed by the rule just gets a single tag... "PropertyInvoiceFY25123 Smith St"
If I go into the properties of the Custom List Attributes token within the dynamic Tag, I can specify a separator...so I tried that...I changed it to a comma...then the single tag just looks like this "Property,Invoice,FY25,123 Smith St"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10PjPoK80MTUURUvfra_Moy3DJLs5SbAa/view?usp=share_link

I don't see the separator option in the condition (unlike the screenshot in the help documentation):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10QrIZyFhcUYpVWgpiCVvelxJlgaIwwZ2/view?usp=share_link

How do I get this to work so it creates multiple separate tags from the list rather than a concatenation? What am I doing wrong?
Lachlan Williams
 
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Seems like there's a bug there. Are you willing to run a test build? If so, email in to support.
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