Title: Adding additional custom columns?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding additional custom columns?

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 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-additional-custom-columns/)
 * Any chance that you could add flexibility in creating additional custom fields?
   Either to tap into something like [Types](http://wordpress.org/plugins/types/),
   or just additional custom meta-descriptions?
 * I have a desire to handle (and display) a bunch of podcast segments, so custom
   fields like <airdate>, <guest>, <segment title>, <segment type>, <show name>,
   etc.
 * This plugin looks very clean and tidy.
 * Thanks!
    jc
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/)

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 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-additional-custom-columns/#post-4682680)
 * Are you talking about for use with [fileaway] or [attachaway]?
 *  Thread Starter [convergence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/convergence/)
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 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-additional-custom-columns/#post-4682681)
 * Fileaway
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-additional-custom-columns/#post-4682682)
 * For [fileaway] that is something I can do, but I won’t be able to get to it for
   a while; swamped at the moment with work. Thanks for the request. I’ll post back
   here if I’m able to find time to get it done.
 *  Thread Starter [convergence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/convergence/)
 * (@convergence)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-additional-custom-columns/#post-4682684)
 * Yeah – noticed you were pretty busy. Good luck – busy is good, right?
    jc
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-additional-custom-columns/#post-4682881)
 * Busy is good-ish. On my way to pick up my daughter from school today I was thinking
   about your request and I worked out how to do it. Now I just have to find the
   time. Hopefully will be shortly!
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-additional-custom-columns/#post-4682886)
 * This is now done and uploaded. Please download version 1.4.
 * You can now add an unlimited number of Custom Columns to your File Away tables,
   using the same method as before. In the shortcode, using the customdata attribute,
   separate multiple column headings by semi-colon. Then in your file names, inside
   the square brackets, separate the corresponding data sets by semi-colon.
 * Example Shortcode:
    [fileaway type=table customdata=”Artist*; Album; Label; Year”
   sortfirst=”custom”] The asterisk next to “Artist” indicates that sortfirst=”custom”
   should apply to the “Artist” column.
 * Example Filenames:
    My Funny Valentine [Chet Baker; My Funny Valentine; Blue 
   Note; 1994].mp3 So What [Miles Davis; Kind of Blue; Columbia; 1959].mp3 Birdland[
   Weather Report; Heavy Weather; Columbia; 1977].mp3
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-additional-custom-columns/#post-4682913)
 * Argh. Just found out that Safari truncates filenames on download after any semi-
   colon, and there’s no fix for it. So I’ve had to change the whole system to separate
   customdata columns by comma, instead, which I had wanted to avoid, but so be 
   it. This is will be something that is effective in the next release. Anyone using
   semi-colons will have to make the change. Fortunately, File Away will come with
   renaming functionality. 🙂

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