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Carlos Pedraza
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Here's my problem: I've tagged some items "male" and others "female." When I use the filter at the top of the page for male, all the items tagged female also appear. I expect this is the case because the word female includes 'male' in it. However, from a tagging standpoint this is unacceptable and renders tagging useless.
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2 Posted by pnooren on 19 May, 2010 02:56 AM
Not necessarily. I ran into the same problem a couple of days ago, because I use the following tags to indicate priority: i ; ii ; iii. If I select priority i, all other tasks will also pop up.
I managed to work around this "problem" by indicating priorities with letters from the alphabet.
Also, I can imagine that a lot of users find this feature desirable: for instance, when you have the contexts 'pc', 'pc/email', 'pc/website', 'pc/programming', selecting the tag 'pc' will bring up all tasks where a computer is required, and allows for further drilling down. (effectively allowing different levels in tags)
That being said, from those two tags that you mention I see why this bothers you. A not so elegant, but effective solution would be to change the tags to [m] and [f] (including brackets).
I'm not sure whether or not the developers are looking to change this tag behavior. @Elbert, could you shine a light on this matter? Do I have to change my tag system in the near future?
3 Posted by martin.tyler on 19 May, 2010 01:03 PM
although there is a use for it (to create a hierarchy of tags) there is nothing in the gui that indicates this is the behaviour - so it is either a bug, or if it is intended it should be more obvious that is what it is doing
i would prefer (as mentioned elsewhere) a more explicit tag hierarchy feature
Support Staff 4 Posted by Christiane Magee on 25 Jun, 2010 03:56 PM
the tag library does need to be more explicit. We are improving up on this. Thanks for contributing your thoughts in this.
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