New Post: Want to calculate edge weights as a function of edge attributes

So, I'm working with a network of political organizations, and I have a number of attributes that I want to use as numerical values in computing the strength of a particular tie. In the network, two organizations are linked (per attribute) if they share the attribute. For example, any two organizations whose Political Orientation is "Left" are linked. Thus two given organizations may have many links between them - one for each attribute they have in common.

However, currently each of these types of links are given the same weight/strength. I want certain attributes to generate stronger links (e.g. the Political Orientation tie should be stronger than a tie indicating whether the two are radical or reformist). I believe I can do this with an IF function for each edge, but what I'm stuck on is how to assign the value to the edge so that it pulls relatively more/less on the vertices it connects. I know it should be listed in 'Other Columns' on the edge sheet, but I don't know how to get that data to reflect visually on the graph.

Thanks for any help you can offer!
Steven