Multi-Word Tags

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urshah

Not sure if anyone has encountered this or not, but i always wonder why Alfresco uses a space to seperate tags?

As a result i can't use words like "case study" as a tag. Alfresco turn them both into seperate tags so instead of a tag called "case study" i get two: one called "case" and another called "study".
Any reason why a comma or semicolon was used as the delimiter when tagging? Just curious.

The only solution i have been able to find is to use an underscore so "case study" has to become "case_study".

Anyone have any other solutions or explanaitions to this?

mikeh

Hi

I don't recall the design decision as to why tagging works this way - possibly due to an early implementation that was going to use Lucene's native support for index counting (which we've since abandoned due to the inaccurate results from lazy cache updates).

It's probably something we should change when we revisit tagging throughout Share - hopefully sometime later this year as part of a general improvement sweep we're planning. Feel free to raise an enhancement request in JIRA, then you'll be kept informed of any updates.

Thanks,
Mike