Add tag editing to Edit Page form

Summary:

Makes it much easier to change the tags as you edit, and make it less likely you forget to do it

Add tag editing to Edit Page form

Kynan 19 Jun 2008 15:14

There are two things I do a lot when creating and editing pages: edit the tags, and set the parent.

There's already a request to have the parent settable, and to have it default to the page you are coming from: http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-20133/automatic-parent-property-definition-proposal

I would add in the ability to edit tags when editing the page. When you edit text, especially if you make a number of small edits all over the page, you may add references that you wish to tag. It is a pain to do this after the fact, because you must remember what you changed. You can't use the history, as you can have only one of the modules active underneath the page.

Also, it takes a few extra clicks/keystrokes to do this, as you must scroll to the bottom of the page, then click tags, and then edit them there. If you need to scroll the page, you have to scroll it back down to see the tags textfield (in the editor, you could be scrolling just the edit text area, and still be able to see a tags textfield).

Re: Add tag editing to Edit Page form

cold_blood3d 19 Jun 2008 17:58

This would be very helpful. Adding tags is regular part of the process when i create a new page. When people add pages to my wiki, they usually forget to tag it and i have to do it myself. But, if it were right there staring them in the face when they create a page, it would be a lot more likely that they add tags.

As it is now, tag editing is too disconnected from page editing. If this were done, and a history of tag changes were kept along with regular page edits, the tags system would be much better.

Re: Add tag editing to Edit Page form

David Marseilles 19 Jun 2008 22:21

This thread just reminded me I forgot to tag my latest post. =o

Re: Add tag editing to Edit Page form

Kynan 20 Jun 2008 04:10

For extra credit, the tag textfield should act like it does in LiveJournal, where it autocompletes tags.