# Actions formating
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 2, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383 "2025-05-02T18:04:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/1 "2025-05-02T18:04:04Z")
hi,
i wondering i have an action called style with two format values strings of hip hop and rock within it. is there a way i can choose these format strings under the style action when i need them or do i have to use separate actions. i'm trying set theses type of strings under one action. Thanks Dp
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/2 "2025-05-02T18:47:11Z")
> [@dp19](#):
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> is there a way i can choose these format strings
No.
> [@dp19](#):
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> do i have to use separate actions
Yes.
That's the way it is.
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 11:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/3 "2025-05-03T11:18:29Z")
in today's world of programming i think there should be this options in actions. Thanks for the time.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/4 "2025-05-03T11:54:50Z")
See the documenation on how to create your own submenu from actions:
> **[Actions – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/#submenus-in-the-actions-menu)**
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> Documentation on Quick Actions and Action Groups that covers replace text, case conversion, tag to tag conversion, duplicate field handling, batch cover import/export, and more. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
So you could have a menu enty "Style" with the submenu branches "Hip hop" and "rock":
Name of the 2 actions:
`Style#Hip Hop`
`Style#rock`
It is still not possible to stop an action so that the user can select a value during execution.
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/5 "2025-05-03T16:05:16Z")
So would i place the submenus inside the style action and the fromat strings inside the submenus. i'm a little confuse on setting up the submenus. i did read the doc that you sent, just don't undstand it.
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/6 "2025-05-03T16:20:49Z")
ok if i create the submenus how to i select teh one i need?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/7 "2025-05-03T16:40:04Z")
> [@dp19](#):
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> create the submenus how to i select teh one i need?
How have you selected functions from a submenu until now?
@dp19: you know the game meanwhile:
You get a suggestion and then you tell as thorough as possible what you do with that suggestion.
I cannot look over your shoulder from the distance. And as I don't see it, you have to describe it.
Besides the link to the documentation you also got an example. I do not feel like telling it again.
So, please tell me where you think a name of an action is applicable and what result you got.
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/8 "2025-05-03T17:31:02Z")
Thanks
here my input
action: Style
under style action i done
stlye#Rock
Style#Pop
now how i i choose which submenu when i need to apply , i don't get and option to choose in the Style action?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/9 "2025-05-03T17:34:54Z")
> [@dp19](#):
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> under style action i done
> stlye#Rock
> Style#Pop
What do you mean by "under style action" - and how does that correspond to the
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Name of the 2 actions:
(groups - as an action group is the only item that you can give an individual NAME)
I am pretty sure that you have created named actions before like e.g. here:
> [@Pulling location from directory into an action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/pulling-location-from-directory-into-an-action/66877):
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> ok i know i've been told how to do this but everything i have try isn't working. i like to have the country added into the tag but don't the correct action format to get this done. my action is format value field \_directory string %dummy% - %Country% i know country is a field value. so what is the correct action to set this up please? i have this on and old pc but now trying setup on a new one, Thank You
Screenshots would help
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/10 "2025-05-03T18:31:12Z")
ok here's a screeshot. i've created a action call style and put the submenus inside that like i read from the post. is this not correct? if so how to i set them up please?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/11 "2025-05-03T18:38:47Z")
> [@dp19](#):
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> i've created a action call style and put the submenus inside that
No. I did not write anything about a format string. I said that you have to create 2 action (groups) with the
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Name of the 2 actions:
> `Style#Hip Hop`
> `Style#rock`
and as you can set a name only for action groups, it should be clear how to name the action groups.
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/12 "2025-05-03T19:26:16Z")
ok i got that but how do you put them into a submenu inside style is what i don't understand, unless you can't is how i'm seeing tjis.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/13 "2025-05-03T19:29:10Z")
> [@dp19](#):
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> but how do you put them into a submenu
Open the actions menu
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/14 "2025-05-03T20:48:18Z")
Thanks I believe i finally got it figure out.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/15 "2025-05-03T20:51:43Z")
As we all try to improve the support: where did you have the problems?
Which are the passages in the documentation that should be modified? And what should they look like?
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### Author:  [@dp19](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dp19)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/16 "2025-05-04T10:41:43Z")
the problem as usual is me Thanks for your support and time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-formating/68383/17 "2025-06-03T10:41:48Z")
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