Tags with special characters not working
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1Karlstar
I have two tags with '&' in the tag. For both of them today, from the 'Your tags' list, if I click on either of those tags, it says no books found and the '&' is replaced with %26 in the tag on the results page.
Also, I have lower case versions of two tags, for example, 'Fantasy' and 'fantasy'. When I click on the lower case tag from the Your Tags list, it brings up the same list as the upper case tag.
Also, I have lower case versions of two tags, for example, 'Fantasy' and 'fantasy'. When I click on the lower case tag from the Your Tags list, it brings up the same list as the upper case tag.
2Maddz
Duplicate of https://www.librarything.com/topic/334172
3Karlstar
>2 Maddz: Thanks Maddz. Looks like the solution is to remove the &.
Any thoughts on the caps vs. no caps tag issue?
Any thoughts on the caps vs. no caps tag issue?
4Maddz
>3 Karlstar: Hi Karlstar, unfortunately no. I've seen no functional difference between lowercase and uppercase in any site searches. I would suggest you edit your tags to be 'Fantasy_UC' and 'fantasy_lc'. (You need to include the '_' as otherwise the system thinks you're doing a tagmash and fails to return any results.)
5Karlstar
>4 Maddz: Seems like it would be most productive for me to just ignore it, since I can't even find the books with the lower case tag.
6Maddz
>5 Karlstar: It's easy enough to change the tag itself rather than the tag on each book.
Go to 'Your books' and make sure you have 'All collections' selected in the drop-down.
Then go to the third button on the row and make sure 'Tags' are selected. Click on the button, and you'll get a page with all the tags you've used.
Scroll to each of the versions of fantasy and hover - a new row will appear below the tag select 'Edit'.
Edit the tag in the pop-up; it will change all instances of that tag in your collection.
Now the interesting thing is that if I search my library for tag:*cd album, I get no results, but if I search on*cd, *cd album or i select the tag, then I get results. So it looks like the advanced search functionality is not parsing spaces correctly - instead of treating the tag as a single string, it's treating it as multiple strings. Sigh (I'll have to change all several hundred tags with spaces).
Go to 'Your books' and make sure you have 'All collections' selected in the drop-down.
Then go to the third button on the row and make sure 'Tags' are selected. Click on the button, and you'll get a page with all the tags you've used.
Scroll to each of the versions of fantasy and hover - a new row will appear below the tag select 'Edit'.
Edit the tag in the pop-up; it will change all instances of that tag in your collection.
Now the interesting thing is that if I search my library for tag:*cd album, I get no results, but if I search on*cd, *cd album or i select the tag, then I get results. So it looks like the advanced search functionality is not parsing spaces correctly - instead of treating the tag as a single string, it's treating it as multiple strings. Sigh (I'll have to change all several hundred tags with spaces).