Ho hum… I have a problem with DT 3.7.2 that may be of my own making, but is nevertheless vexing.
I have all my payslips, P60’s (I’m in the UK), tax returns, HMRC correspondence etc saved in groups. To pull together everything for a given financial year each document is tagged with a tag like FY 2019/20, including the space and / characters. This has worked since I first purchased DT, quite some time ago. However, trying to tag a document for FY 2021/22 I find that the behaviour has changed: two tags – FY 2021 and 22 – now get created. It looks OK when I type “FY 2021/22” into the tag bar below the Document preview, but when I go back later it’s changed. I also now see in the Tags section of the navigation column the tag FY 2021 with a disclosure arrow that, when opened, shows 22.
My supposition is that somewhere along the line DT has introduced nested tags and / is now a special character designating a delimiter.
I’m not saying that nested tags aren’t a good idea, but it’s rather scuppered my tagging (from FY 1998/99 onwards!). So, is it possible to escape the / character when entering the tag name? I’ve tried using / as an escape sequence (in the usual Unix style), but that doesn’t work. Alternatively, is there a preference somewhere to change the delimiter? I know Unix uses ‘/’, but Windows uses ‘’ and sometimes you see ‘:’ in path names, so it’s not like the use of ‘/’ is universal. Finally, are there any other special characters I should know about? If I’m going to have to change all my financial year tags to a different format, I don’t want to find that the separator character I choose (-?, ~?, ****?, :?) has equally awkward side effects.
Thanks for your help on this.