* Reduce noise in taglists and overtagging
* Add content that includes commas and controlled characters with no additional regex gymnastics
* Provide a Dummy's Interface for novice or untrained users
* Better UX for most visitors

(1) Include an admin switch/checkbox control "Add tags one-by-one" for a user to only submit a single tag at a time
(2) The submission box could then accept controlled characters - like comma.
(3) A user would type Buytaert, Drees [Submit] Mayer, Eugen [Submit] Company, Inc [Submit] Emerson, Lake and Palmer [Submit]

instead of "Buytaert, Drees" , "Mayer, Eugen " [Submit]

Thanks for a great module!

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eugenmayer’s picture

eugenmayer commented
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Hi,

this is actually a dublicate to http://drupal.org/node/650266 .

It is not possible to suppor commas that easy, as you might think. Iam not sure, you can use quotes to accomplish that, but its just the way taxonomy.module works.
It works different for normal terms and tags. While it wants an array of terms for every "not tagging" taxonomy, it wants a comma-seperated string for tagging taxonomys.

This makes things much more complicated, as i need to pass your tags like
$tags1 = 'foo,bar,barfoo,foobar'

If now commas would be allowed, it "might" work to use quotes, it might not (i would need to look into the code). An example:
$tags1 = "foo,'You, as you are',barfoo,foobar"

This overcomplicates things in the backend, making it fraggile.

I second your opinion, that every non-trained user will have problems with comma-seperated list, BUT thats why the user wont use them. So also right now, the system enables the user to add a "tag by tag" - it only has one exception and thats when you use commas.
For me, i personally think, tags should be words - not sentences. On placing commas "in" a tag pretty much stands for not understanding tagging.

So while i like every improvement of the UI and usability, i dont think this makes a difference for the "non-traned" user.

I could probably think of a warning message, that tells the user, that he uses characters which are not used in thags normally "?/!/./%/$"... to train him a bit. Tihs message should be able to be turned off in the settings.

Anyway - for the next stable this one gets postponed.

rup3rt’s picture

rup3rt commented

Thanks Eugen! you are right,

The single-tag text box could automagically add quote marks around any submitted text....

...and solve this four year old Drupal-wide issue.... Forever
http://drupal.org/node/91074

You would be a hero! (you already are actually)

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eugenmayer’s picture

eugenmayer commented
Status: Closed (duplicate) » Active

rep3rt is see it could be not to complicated.

Please provide a patch if you like, otherwise wait until i will finish this task.

People also running for that feature should bump this thread up, so i know how important that one would be and can place it in my queue.

eugenmayer’s picture

eugenmayer commented

rep3rt is see it could be not to complicated.

Please provide a patch if you like, otherwise wait until i will finish this task.

People also running for that feature should bump this thread up, so i know how important that one would be and can place it in my queue.

eugenmayer’s picture

eugenmayer commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)