radiac/django-tagulous

Feature request: commands to merge/move tags?

BoPeng opened this issue · 4 comments

BoPeng commented

I am evaluating django-tagulous for my Django website and I am wondering if there is an easy way for tag management. For example, if a user creates a new tag that is similar enough to an existing tag, or should have been in a category, something like

python manage.py merge_tags apple  --to Apple
python manage.py move_tag apple --category fruit

would be convenient to have,

A quick google search shows [this command for django-tagit.

radiac commented

Tagulous doesn't have a management command for that, but if you register the tag model with Django admin, the changelist view has an action for it (check the tags to merge, select merge in the action drop-down):

https://radiac.net/projects/django-tagulous/documentation/admin/#managing-the-tag-model

BoPeng commented

Thank you very much for you quick response and I should have read the manual more thoroughly. I have some other features in mind, for example tags with categories and versions (e.g. language:Python==3.7) and displays of categories by color (ignore the languagepart), but I will ask later after reading more about this wonderful project.

radiac commented

That's interesting - tagulous doesn't support those out of the box, but does support nested tags; the equivalent would be language/python/3.7. You could then set colours with a custom tag model.

I'll add custom tree syntax to the to-do list, that would be a nice feature (probably not one I'll get to for a while though)

BoPeng commented

The main idea is that users should not have to input language manually. When they input python, and if the system has language/python and snake/python, users should be able to select one of the existing ones and the tag will be displayed as python with category presented by color. Then if they just enter python, the admin or the system should assign a category...

If I can somehow control what the user need to type and will see, the internal presentation of tags does not matter, language/python is just as good as language:python.

I seem to like this aspect of django-sitecat
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