emyoulation reports that a tag (“supertool-script”) is not being added to topics in the same category, despite being used successfully in other topics within that category. The issue seems to be related to the tag being part of a Third Party Addons group.
Moin suggests that the problem might be due to tag restrictions or limitations in certain categories, but emyoulation is not aware of any such restrictions.
After investigation, emyoulation discovers that the issue is indeed related to the tag group. To add the “supertool-script” tag, a Third Party Addons tag must be added first. emyoulation finds this process counterintuitive and suggests that the interface could be improved by automatically adding the parent tag group when a child tag is selected.
Moin suggests supporting a feature request to automatically add the required tag when a tag group is selected.
Is there a tool to rebuild/re-index the list of Tags?
Our site has a Tag (“supertool-script”) that is used with some topics in a Category but cannot be added to other topics in that same Category. (example of topic that rejects the tag. topic is not locked but has a “Solution”. Tried with the Solution turned off with the same results.)
The odd part is that the popup menu (which searches the existing tags) cannot find a partial match, so it offers a “Create:” option until the exact matching text is entered.
Yet after there is an exact match, the menu changes to “No matches found”, there is no “Create” option offered, and clicking the check (to apply the Edit) does nothing.
Not that I am aware of. I am a moderator, not an admin. I will ask.
We have a topic in our Feedback category where we tried to find a resolution for the problem. (Another topic in this forum was about a Tag not appearing. It was isolated to the 2 Max Tags preferences. Our admin increased the setting to more than our total Tag count. That had no effect.)
I had problems with that here too. You have to add ai before you can use ai-helper.
Sorry for creating the spam topic. I expected the topic creation to fail, because I only used supertool script, but Discourse was clever and added the third-party-addon tag when I clicked “Create Topic”.
Yes! That was the problem. The Tag is part of our site’s Third Party Addons Group. So I need to add a Third Party Addons tag before the supertool-script tag can be accepted by the tagging interface.
This is exactly backwards — if the feature is tool intended to be a time saver. I have to add tags twice and in a specific order. This is RPN for tagging.
If instead, it automagically added the parent tag group when the child tag was selected, that would be a time saver. Or if the child tags showed in the selector when the Parent tag Group was entered, the interface would basically have hints. (And selecting the Child tag should, again, add the Parent group.)
