urapadmin
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3 years ago - the drop downs in description and context are a browser feature. The browser just shows you a history of search terms. All I can do about it is get rid of it.
- the drop down in tags, or "file tags" we should call them, is a kiosk feature and I don't see how it could be improved. You are also batteling testing issues here. A "normal" project does not have so many different imports. But then sorting things out with tags needs thinking on the user's front. Otherwise you will end up with an unstructured, close to useless heap of tags.
- What we ARE missing, indeed, is a management UI for tags that allows you to clean things up and reorganize them. One first thing that can help a bit would be #928, but even that is not a replacement for a proper tag management. I have postponed that because it is still an open question in my mind whether or not to bring tags from different domains together (you complain about the difference between locus tags and file tags - the former being indeed an archaeological context in our system.
luizaogs
Sometimes I find the tags search in the file repository difficult and I wonder if we could think about how it might be better. Both context and description seem to store a memory of what has been put in there before, which shows up as a dropdown box when one puts the cursor in the field. I have mixed feelings about that since I don't entirely get how it derives the list (I just tried a new search term and found a photo that way but my term didn't get added to the list). Both of those categories have too many things in them for a list of everything that exists to be useful. Tags behaves differently. It does not generate that kind of previous search terms list when you put the cursor in there. It DOES generate a dropdown once one starts typing. The problems are that a) I never remember what term I am supposed to use so I don't always even think of the first letter to start typing, and b) the list is anyway too short. If I put in "import" not knowing which day but knowing it was relatively recently, I get a bunch of imports from 2020 and I can't find what I am looking for. At first I was thinking a list of all tags would be useful, but that can't be either - import shows the problem since there would be a gajillion imports and leave everything else unfindable. There may be no solution. But the dropdown lists for searches trip me up often enough that I make one of the think and talk about it tickets.
When we do we can also think about the fact that locus tags are searched for under context, not tag, in the file repository. I suspect there is very good reason for it softwarewise, it's just confusing to an archaeologist.