is there a way to import a tag heirarchy via a sheet?? like have fifty rows, three columns, where a script would create a tag for column c which could be nested in a newly created tag from column b which would be nested in a newly created tag from column a?
Yes, tags can be created using Applescript
You will be creating a record with type tag
edit: actually type “group”, created in the tag group
The dictionary specification is listed in the screenshot below
Note - it specifies “in record” which defines the hierarchy
The tagnames can be retrieved from a sheet
Just curious as to why you have a sheet of tagnames?
Seeing the document you’re referring to would be helpful.
And I’m as curious as @DTLow… why do you have a sheet of tagnames?
they’re geographies
Here’s a sample script
tell application id "DNtp"
set theTagGroup to get record with uuid "E9390B1F-0B97-4145-BDE1-956A16F3510C"
set theTagtext to plain text of content record -------------The Tags sheet
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters ------------ Parse the sheet by rows
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {linefeed}
set theTagRows to every text item of (theTagtext)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
repeat with theTagRow in theTagRows
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters --------- Parse the row by Tags
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" "}
set theTags to every text item of (theTagRow)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
if theTags is not {} then
set TagA to item 1 of theTags
set TagB to item 2 of theTags
set TagC to item 3 of theTags
set theTagA to create record with {name:TagA, type:group} in theTagGroup
set theTagB to create record with {name:TagB, type:group} in theTagA
set theTagC to create record with {name:TagC, type:group} in theTagB
end if
end repeat
end tell
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Like US > Ohio > Cleveland ?
See what the sheet looked like would be helpful.
maybe a sheet isn’t the best way to do it, which leads me to my next question - if i wanted to duplicate the tag heirarchies and aliases from one database to another, what would be the best way to do that? imagine thousands of tags - around 20k - with about 50 main tags and everything else nested w/in those 50.
I already scripted importing the tag hierarchy from a source
I could script exporting the tag hierarchy; probably to a tab delimited file
My use case was importing tags hierarchy from the Evernote platform
20,000 tags?? 
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