TCWT Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I can't believe it was removed in favor of tags. :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Ian Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Tags are far more powerful - you can sort on them, show them in the sidebar, far more than you can do with the description. However I understand that the description field has been kept and I am sure someone will come up with a hook to show it (in fact I seem to recall someone already saying they would) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S2eve Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 can't believe ipb removes topics where somebody criticize their bad design and bugs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 This was talked about on the preview. It was removed as it was found very few sites even used it. I my self hardly used it and I think I mainly used it if the title field was unable to hold the whole title that I wanted to put so part of the title was in the description. Oh and tags are a must for both navigation and searching so I am very glad those were added. It is a feature I needed more then any other feature that was added to this 3.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pereira Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 For what its worth, I now kinda like the the topic view without descriptions. :) However I still know a lot of sites that still use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Descriptions were essentially non-searchable tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 They were repetitive thread titles... not much need for them imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobiliana Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I am running a genealogy forum ... the topic description was a very useful thing for adding the birth, death, engagement, marriage dates of the respective persons ... it would have been great if the admin could choose between topic description and tags within the admin area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I am running a genealogy forum ... the topic description was a very useful thing for adding the birth, death, engagement, marriage dates of the respective persons ... it would have been great if the admin could choose between topic description and tags within the admin area. I personally think it would be better to have both not one or the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted June 4, 2011 Management Share Posted June 4, 2011 We have no plans to reintroduce the topic description feature as, in our research, very very few communities ever used it in a useful way. When you add that it cluttered up forum view, was not searchable, and few users used it consistently we decided it was not worth keeping. That said, we have not removed the database column for the topic description so I am sure someone will create a simple hook to re-add it if you like the little text field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobiliana Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Has the tag feature already been added to the current running IP.Board 3.2 version? I tried to test it by starting a test topic but could not find a field to add tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted June 4, 2011 Management Share Posted June 4, 2011 It's disabled here :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 <3 tags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanax Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I am running a genealogy forum ... the topic description was a very useful thing for adding the birth, death, engagement, marriage dates of the respective persons ... it would have been great if the admin could choose between topic description and tags within the admin area. And imagine having these as tags instead and be able to search all topics with a specific birth, death, engagement, marriage dates, etc .. :) Tags makes that possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearback Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 hoping this would get reviewed my site uses topic descriptions correctly and is part of my forum, so i guess i would need another hook to put it back again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobiliana Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 And imagine having these as tags instead and be able to search all topics with a specific birth, death, engagement, marriage dates, etc .. :smile: Tags makes that possible. Of course, it would be fantastic ... but as long as this option is deactivated here in the Beta phase and I cannot test tags, I will not be persuaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrej Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Of course, it would be fantastic ... but as long as this option is deactivated here in the Beta phase and I cannot test tags, I will not be persuaded. You can download the beta and test it if you want to. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quotes Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 We have no plans to reintroduce the topic description feature as, in our research, very very few communities ever used it in a useful way. That's all fine and dandy for a new forum but this change will impact my existing forum by excluding useful data that was placed into that field. Please consider making description=off as a default setting and allow legacy users to continue using the field until they are done with it. I'm disappointed to see a feature relating to actual post data being removed in an 'upgrade' without at least having some kind of warning that the use of topic descriptions was deprecated... you've skipped over that and gone straight to obsolete without considering that you might be causing unnecessary problems for your (paying) customer base. Perhaps you should put customer data considerations as higher priority ahead of usability tweaks. I'm all in favour of sleek, slimmed down looks but loss of data isn't acceptable. (I'm aware the data is still in the database but that's of little consolation if it isn't being displayed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikadon Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 @Quotes: While I agree with your overall statement, the data isn't lost, it's still in the database. (Still I agree with the rest) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 there is a mod, is not free though. have not had chance to buy/test yet bit at least someone corrected this ERROR. http://community.invisionpower.com/files/file/4614-et32-topic-description/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 If you simply want to *display* the data, you need only reference it in the template. It's still selected and sent to the template. $topic['description'] or something similar would be the variable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearback Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 That's all fine and dandy for a new forum but this change will impact my existing forum by excluding useful data that was placed into that field. Please consider making description=off as a default setting and allow legacy users to continue using the field until they are done with it. I'm disappointed to see a feature relating to actual post data being removed in an 'upgrade' without at least having some kind of warning that the use of topic descriptions was deprecated... you've skipped over that and gone straight to obsolete without considering that you might be causing unnecessary problems for your (paying) customer base. Perhaps you should put customer data considerations as higher priority ahead of usability tweaks. I'm all in favour of sleek, slimmed down looks but loss of data isn't acceptable. (I'm aware the data is still in the database but that's of little consolation if it isn't being displayed) fully agree with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason H Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 How about this? In ACP->Look and Feel->Manage Templates & CSS->Forum View->topics <if test="hasTags:|:isset($data['tags']) AND $data['tags']"> <img src='{$this->settings['img_url']}/icon_tag.png' /> {$data['tags']['formatted']['truncatedWithLinks']} </if> If you change that to <if test="hasTags:|:isset($data['tags']) AND $data['tags']"> <img src='{$this->settings['img_url']}/icon_tag.png' /> {$data['tags']['formatted']['truncatedWithLinks']} <else /> {$data['description']} </if> That way, it shows tags, but, if the topic is a legacy topic and has a description, that would be displayed instead? That seem like a happy middle ground? You get to keep the legacy descriptions, they will show on the list of topics, and no new ones can be added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgf100 Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 I'm disappointed to see a feature relating to actual post data being removed in an 'upgrade' without at least having some kind of warning that the use of topic descriptions was deprecated... you've skipped over that and gone straight to obsolete without considering that you might be causing unnecessary problems for your (paying) customer base. Perhaps you should put customer data considerations as higher priority ahead of usability tweaks. Agreed. What happens when IP decides that tags are old news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrej Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 That's all fine and dandy for a new forum but this change will impact my existing forum by excluding useful data that was placed into that field. Please consider making description=off as a default setting and allow legacy users to continue using the field until they are done with it. I'm disappointed to see a feature relating to actual post data being removed in an 'upgrade' without at least having some kind of warning that the use of topic descriptions was deprecated... you've skipped over that and gone straight to obsolete without considering that you might be causing unnecessary problems for your (paying) customer base. Perhaps you should put customer data considerations as higher priority ahead of usability tweaks. I'm all in favour of sleek, slimmed down looks but loss of data isn't acceptable. (I'm aware the data is still in the database but that's of little consolation if it isn't being displayed) Topic Descriptions removal were posted in the Whats new in 3.2 topic months before the release actualy. (I am commenting only the bold part) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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