Newbie looking for Tag entry Tips or suggestion.

[kementh]

Hello to the forums!

After several days of research, experimenting, and product trials, I think i've settled on XYplorer as a means of managing my Digital Assets,

My one concern is the Keyword entry system.
I have a horribly large archive that I'm going to have to tag to suit my purposes, and I'm wondering if there's any means to have XYplorer make suggestions or tab-complete when adding tags?
Clicking them manually in the GUI will be far to slow, but if I type them by hand they're vulnerable to Typo's as well as tag duplication as I misremember what i've used previously and call a tag something slightly different.

Hopefully there is a tab or frame i've overlooked that has this functionality,


Thanks for your time,
Kementh

[Marco]

XY doesn't make suggestions nor autocomplete for tagging. It does in other places, but not in tagging.
You can select a bunch of files and tag them all at once with the same tags. Or you can use scripting to automate this, if you have criteria that can be scripted.

[admin]

Clicking them manually in the GUI will be far to slow, but if I type them by hand they're vulnerable to Typo's as well as tag duplication as I misremember what i've used previously and call a tag something slightly different.

Not sure I understand. IMO clicking them is far quicker than typing AND it's not vulnerable to typos. So clicking is clearly the best and XY supports this. You can set up a Catalog category with the tags you need and tagging the selected item(s) will be just one click. This will have to make use of scripting, however, so setting it up is a little advanced. Just ask if you need help.

[kementh]

Clicking them manually in the GUI will be far to slow, but if I type them by hand they're vulnerable to Typo's as well as tag duplication as I misremember what i've used previously and call a tag something slightly different.

Not sure I understand. IMO clicking them is far quicker than typing AND it's not vulnerable to typos. So clicking is clearly the best and XY supports this. You can set up a Catalog category with the tags you need and tagging the selected item(s) will be just one click. This will have to make use of scripting, however, so setting it up is a little advanced. Just ask if you need help.

*chuckles* it is an opinion/User preference thing yes, I've been using command consoles for years and I am MUCH faster typing out a string of six or seven tags then finding them in a GUI list of 40+ different tags and then clicking on them. Also I noticed it's not possible to add a new tag in the Check-box selection GUI.

Thanks for the quick response, pity there isn't an easy way, (scripting isn't an option as the files are untagged currently, and while I could script a few based in directory structure, it wouldn't speed things up as I'd still have to check each individual file for additional tags that should be applied.

Thanks.

[Marco]

How many different tags are you going to use?

[kementh]

I am unsure at the total number of tags but i would guess that it would be in the hundred or so.
I tagged 100 or so images as a trial and used maybe 7-10 tags per File, and there are currently 30 tags in my tag list... This I expect to increase greatly as I start expanding to different events or Media (PDF's or Video files instead of Photo's)

[neil9090]

Not sure if you have a folder or filename convention that would allow my autotag script to work.

I created AutoTag http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12110

This can parse a directory structure tagging files as it goes based on filename specification or a folder name specfication.
(also can move files into a specfic location if specification is matched)
e.g.
filename
dogs.jpg
can be auto tagged based on a text file and file spec like so
dogs*|Animal:Dogs

Running the script against a folder, files would match filenames like dogs* and tag them Animal:Dogs

[Marco]

You could build your own convention in which every tag has its number code. You would then assign numbers instead of words as tags, this should be less prone to typos and lack of conformity between tags spelled differently. Then, eventually, a script could convert those numbers back into words.

[PeterH]

Isn't it better to type mountauns instead of mountains, than 37 instead of 27?

(Just as I see it )

[totmad1]

I don't know if this will be any help but here goes.

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     $AtaglistA = taglist();
     $choice = inputselect("Select ", $AtaglistA, ",", 2); // see  Image1.png
     $YrTags = input("Check & Add with comma separator", , $choice, , ) ;  //see list.png
     tag "$YrTags", , 1;   // tags your selected file(s)
     taglist("$YrTags", 1);  // adds new tags to taglist

I tested this with an unsorted taglist of 1000

1/ select item(s) you want to tag and run script.
2/ (see image1.png) type your tag in box highlighted in red.
3/ (see image1.png) select from list. if not in list can be added in step 6.
4/ repeat steps 2 & 3 until finished.
5/ click OK.
6/ (see list.png) check that all required tags are in view if not add a comma then your tag
conntinue adding comma and tags.
7/ click OK.

the script will then tag your item(s) and update the taglist.

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[n2tpa]

Sounds like another use for Tag Hierarchy. With that, he could turn his list of 100 tags into 10 lists of 10 each selectable by the upper level of the hierarchy.

Bill