aphenine: Teresa and Claire (angels, anime, claymore)aphenine ([personal profile] aphenine) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev_training,
@ 2009-09-03 02:51 pm UTC
Entry tags:design, tags, trees
When I was looking around the database, I noticed that the tag database obeyed a tree form, which meant that tags could be stored with categories and subcategories and so on.

This is not a feature that's implemented, and it's high on my list of "features I'd love to have in DW" (possibly no 1 :-) ), and I have also written some tree algorithms using HTML/PHP before, so I thought I might try to give it a go and see if it went easily. However, when I went looking, there are no bugs in bugzilla about tree tagging, nor does there appear to be any information about this as a planned feature, despite the DB support.

So, I was wondering, can any of you please tell me more?

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aphenine: Teresa and Claire (angels, anime, claymore)


[personal profile] aphenine
2009-09-03 11:22 pm UTC (link)
I'm sorry. I know about [site community profile] dw_suggestions and the suggestion process. If I'd known that I was proposing a completely new system, I would have gone through the established channels. I'm really not trying to short circuit anything and I really thought it was a developer query given that there is already support in the database and I was confused.

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[staff profile] mark
2009-09-03 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Oh, don't be sorry! It's totally fine. If there were more than five lines of code and one database column, then you might be on to something. But really, there's not much support in the code for nested tags. Even if there was, we'd probably still at least go through everything from step #2. (We sometimes skip the suggestions process, but almost never skip the spec process.)

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[personal profile] cesy
2009-09-21 07:10 am UTC (link)
Can we get this put in Bugzilla, and then one of us will do a feature spec? Proper nested tags would be very useful.

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[staff profile] mark
2009-09-21 07:37 am UTC (link)
If you want to do so, go for it!

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