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Easier tag organization and usage #738
Description
Desired Feature
As our BookStack is growing I'm seeing multiple variants of tags being created because people do not know that a similar tag has been created (capitalization, abbreviations, etc.). It would be helpful to have a page showing an index of tags so that editors can see what tags exist and, in addition, the tags could be linked to searches showing pages that are using that tag. This would also help us with individuals that are not as comfortable with using proper search syntax.
Activity
ssddanbrown commentedon Mar 12, 2018
@jtjosvold Thanks for the suggestion, So like a tag-overview page?
I can see the benefit. I think this would be worthwhile once Books and Chapters support tags.
Thinking about this I should really increase the priority on Book/Chapter tags just to finish the base tag system off.
Somewhat related to #121.
jtjosvold commentedon Mar 12, 2018
Precisely. It would help to keep them organized and make searching easier for our users.
Thanks for looking into it.
Cave-Johnson commentedon Jan 19, 2020
Would just like to add my plus one to this. I love the way bookstack uses tags and it makes the search feature really powerful.
This would be really useful for managing large instances of bookstack. I like the way that its been done in the pull request. It would also be neat if there was the ability for an admin to combine tags so that multiple similar tags can be cleaned up. As an example, 3 tags for Jan2020 currently appear as jan-20, January2020 and jan2020. It would be really neat functionality to merge the 3, selecting a master tag and then updating the other tag throughout bookstack.
One other thing that would make using tags much easier is to show all tags that have currently been used within that book or that shelf to avoid users creating a new version of that tag. For example show tags currently used in this book under the add tag box.
Klemet commentedon May 23, 2021
I'd really love this to be implemented too. Right now, I kinda feel in the dark about the tags that exist in the Bookstack. It seems like the only way I could find them would be to look at each element of the Bookstack one by one, and make a manual list. To help users search for particular resources, a "all tags" page would be wonderful !
ssddanbrown commentedon Sep 27, 2021
Potential alternative implementation offered here: #2943 (comment)
ssddanbrown commentedon Sep 27, 2021
In regards to the original issue, there seems to be a desire for something like a tag exploration page but the use-cases and requirements would need to be clear. This is something I've hard trouble defining. Don't want just a plain list of tag names.
I'm thinking:
This would provide a view that's primarily orientated around usage via the instant visibility of counts, which could be expanded to understand tag application. No pages|chapters|books|shelves would be displayed in that view specifically but you'd click through to a tag search for entity views.
Would be good to know if that specific implementation would meet people's requirements here. I'd want to keep the scope quite focused.
jtjosvold commentedon Sep 27, 2021
I like your idea. We had been using #1354 as a solution (that was one of my developers) so that we had a better idea and had found it helpful but lacking. I like your idea of incorporating the count and the ability to expand it to see more details.
ssddanbrown commentedon Nov 6, 2021
Implementation as per my comment above has now been merged as per #3042.
This will be part of the next feature release.
Hopefully should cover the core requested case here, so will therefore close this off.