How to fix your typoed tags.
Sep. 22nd, 2006 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hermionesviolinApparently it's time for another round of "Elizabeth explains how to do that LJ thing you've never figured out."
The Tag Management interface lets you rename tags, but my experience has been that if you try to rename a tag to one that already exists it won't work. The work-around is: go to the entry(s) in question, go to Edit Tags, and select the correct tag(s). Then go back to Tag Management and delete the incorrect tag.
LJ's lack of a tag dropdown menu in the web interface seriously exacerbates this problem. Anyone know if there's anything afoot on this? (The Semagic client does have a dropdown menu, blessedly, though I've noticed that it never gets rid of deleted tags even when you tell it to Update. Anyone know if there are plans on that end either?)
The Tag Management interface lets you rename tags, but my experience has been that if you try to rename a tag to one that already exists it won't work. The work-around is: go to the entry(s) in question, go to Edit Tags, and select the correct tag(s). Then go back to Tag Management and delete the incorrect tag.
LJ's lack of a tag dropdown menu in the web interface seriously exacerbates this problem. Anyone know if there's anything afoot on this? (The Semagic client does have a dropdown menu, blessedly, though I've noticed that it never gets rid of deleted tags even when you tell it to Update. Anyone know if there are plans on that end either?)
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Date: 2006-09-22 02:58 pm (UTC)I have no idea about answers to your questions, I just want to say that I love the Tag Management interface omigodsomuch. If you haven't noticed, I am supersupersuper anal about my tags and only use a certain number, and when I choose to create a new tag, I add it to my user profile so that I can keep track, and so having typo tags in my tag bank was driving me insane. But since I only use a certain number of tags, and keep track of them in my user info, cleaning them up in the interface was super easy; I don't know how to help you, lady. Good luck.