Hello,

I'm struggling to understand the logic behind the tag search when we want to add a tag to a topic.

Why? Let me show an example. I want to find valid-stock tag. I need to scroll like 20-30 tags to get to it and select it. I've already wasted hours of my time assigning that tag and many others to topics.

I need to scroll all the way down like 30 tags to select it.

Logic tells me that if I type valid the algorithm should give privileges to the first word in that tag and not a second or third word in a long tail tag. It doesn't make sense.

Why are you doing it this way? It doesn't make any sense to me.

Thanks

It shows all items that match, in alphabetical order. I understand what you are asking for, but thats a change request and isnt something that is really broken

Just now, Marc said:

It shows all items that match, in alphabetical order. I understand what you are asking for, but thats a change request and isnt something that is really broken

You said it yourself "alphabetical order". If I search for valid it should start with "valid" alphabetically and not find "valid" inside a 3-4 word long tail keyword. It just doesn't make sense.

I would love to propose a change, but it doens't make sense either. Been waiting for months (years) even for a bug fix, so I lost all hope in having a request made.

Edited October 28Oct 28 by michimachi

8 minutes ago, michimachi said:

You said it yourself "alphabetical order". If I search for valid it should start with "valid" alphabetically and not find "valid" inside a 3-4 word long tail keyword. It just doesn't make sense.

You are misunderstanding what I said there. It finds all tags with the item in which you searched for, and shows that list in alphabetical order. So if you have "alpha-valid" and "valid", and you search for "valid", it will show with the tag beginning "a" first

9 minutes ago, michimachi said:

I would love to propose a change, but it doens't make sense either. Been waiting for months (years) even for a bug fix, so I lost all hope in having a request made.

Sorry to hear you feel that way. If you have bug fixes that have been outstanding that long, please point those out. As far as change requests are concerned, I cannot guarantee a change request would be implemented. What I can guarantee is a change that isn't requested, will not be implemented unless by some oddity of luck someone internally happens to come across the same and decide to add

@michimachi

Would it be an option for you to change the 'valid'-stock' tag to 'Valid-stock (generic)' or to include some other unique value? This way, you could instead search for 'generic' and this will take you directly to the tag you need.

3 hours ago, Como said:

@michimachi

Would it be an option for you to change the 'valid'-stock' tag to 'Valid-stock (generic)' or to include some other unique value? This way, you could instead search for 'generic' and this will take you directly to the tag you need.

I understand what you're saying but then I would have to change dozens more that follow the logic. Thanks a lot

1 hour ago, michimachi said:

I understand what you're saying but then I would have to change dozens more that follow the logic. Thanks a lot

I thought that was the only tag which was causing you problems. If, for example, you wish to search for australia-valid, you'd search just for 'australia'.

Another possible approach if you experience this problem with very many tags would be add a unique code to every tag 'australia-valid-[001]', china-valid-stock-[002]', etc. You'd then just search for the tag code number.

On 10/28/2026 at 9:11 AM, michimachi said:

I would love to propose a change, but it doens't make sense either. Been waiting for months (years) even for a bug fix, so I lost all hope in having a request made.

On 10/28/2026 at 9:23 AM, Marc said:

Sorry to hear you feel that way. If you have bug fixes that have been outstanding that long, please point those out. As far as change requests are concerned, I cannot guarantee a change request would be implemented. What I can guarantee is a change that isn't requested, will not be implemented unless by some oddity of luck someone internally happens to come across the same and decide to add

Just checking you didnt miss this? Wanted to ensure we're following up if there are items you believe have been left so long