Me ([info]neitherday) wrote in [info]suggestions,
@ 2006-02-22 21:48:00
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Entry tags:editing, tags, user interface, § implemented

Increase the length of the tag field in editjournal.bml

Title
Increase the length of the tag field in editjournal.bml

Short, concise description of the idea
The tag field in editjournal.bml is smaller than is suppported elsewhere. Increase the length in editjournal.bml to match.

Full description of the idea
The tag field length in editjournal.bml is smaller than is supported elsewhere. This causes the tag field to be cropped without warning whenever an entry is edited. Increasing the field length on the form on editjournal.bml would solve this problem.

An ordered list of benefits
  • consistency
  • no randomly losing tags

An ordered list of problems/issues involved
  • minor code editing needed

An organized list, or a few short paragraphs detailing suggestions for implementation
  • edit the code

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[info]damnitnicole
2006-02-25 06:02 am UTC (link)
Yes!

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[info]kunzite1
2006-02-25 06:59 am UTC (link)
went digging through code and the update form imposes a max limit of 255 characters (tag names, commas, and spaces).

the limit for each keyword (as best i can tell) is 80 bytes of data and 40 characters.

that means you can have 6 40-character keywords and still allow room for commas to seperate each one.

you could add the tag of "livejournal suggestions are awesome" 6 times and still have enough room for one or two more short ones.

and i've an entry i posted that has about 20 tags. so, the limit for tags-per-post seems to be pretty high.

there should still be a limit though, and 255 is a nice round number in computer-land.

that's my dollar coin's worth of advice.

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[info]neitherday
2006-02-25 07:11 am UTC (link)
The issue is not about their being a limit, but about the limit not being consistent.

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[info]kunzite1
2006-02-25 07:15 am UTC (link)
ah ha. right.

/edittags.bml seems to not have a limit, nor /manage/tags.bml.

so. it seems that the imposed limit in /update.bml should be removed to become consistent.

i like to make things more specific where i can, so, it's the fact that there doesn't seem to be a limit in any other location that tags are modified.

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[info]damnitnicole
2006-02-25 07:35 am UTC (link)
What the OP said. :)

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[info]adudeabides
2006-02-25 08:08 am UTC (link)
agreed, for consistency

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[info]ruakh
2006-02-25 03:57 pm UTC (link)
Makes sense.

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[info]asciident
2006-04-13 07:42 pm UTC (link)
This suggestion has been migrated for implementation consideration.

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