1. ok
2. so i have a forum category called Forum Help. I want to instead just 'tag' or 'prefix' these posts as 'help' and put put them in a large category with other posts. So i have created the prefix 'help' in AdminCP > Community > Advanced Tags > Prefixes. My question is do i need to also create the tag 'help' in AdminCP > System > Posting > Tags?
3. So i created a prefix 'help' as above. I see the forum posts now have a prefix called 'help' in front of the title. If i click on this prefix i get taken to a search page that shows 0 results. When i know there is definitely 4 posts with that prefix. If i go to AdminCP > Community > Advanced Tags > Manage Tags I can see the tag 'help' and it says 4 uses. So why don't these show in the frontend when someone searches by the prefix? ------ further testing reveals that it works for newly created prefixes, but not on existing topics that i have bulk assigned prefixes too.
4. So you have an area in AdminCP > Community > Advanced Tags > Tags. This seems to show the IPS tags created in AdminCP > System > Posting > Tags. So my question is is that the only place where tags can be created? i.e your system just leverages the in built tag system.
5. i have checked the logs and don't see any issues in there relating to Advanced Tags. I have noticed this error when trying to view banned members in AdminCP as well so i have logged a support ticket with IPS. maybe its related. if not i will get back in touch ok I don't think this tag problem was related, as the member issue was fixed by the patch below and the tag issue still persists.
5a. When i try to do a bulk tag or prefix of an existing category, it does the first 50 it seems then fails and displays error: 'Invalid request, please try again later, but better'
So a category called 'Pets' has 80 topics and 1005 posts. I click to add a tag 'pets' to each of these topics/posts. It runs the first pass of 50 then fails, no topics end up getting tagged though.
7. i have added a tag called 'Forum Help' in AdminCP > System > Posting > Tags. Now when i try to create a topic on the fronted and choose the tag from the dropdown, and then click submit it doesnt save the tag to the topic. is this your app conflicting with the IPS core? or is it a bug with IPS Core?
Ok so my main goal of using your app is to merge several categories into one. So if i have separate categories called Fish, Dogs, Cats, Birds and now only want one category called Animals, and in here move all the topics from Fish, Dogs, Cats, Birds. So I want to 'tag' or 'prefix' (not sure which is the best method) all the respective topics (so all Fish topics get a 'fish' tag or prefix) so that a user can view all the topics from all 4 categories in one go, but drill down to just 'fish' topics if they click on the tag or prefix. Does that make sense?
8. What would be the best way to do this? do i add tags or prefixes?.... ok I'm thinking of leaning towards tags.
9. If i have 100 categories currently and want to merge these down to be only 10 categories that means i would need around 90 tags. is there a way so that when a user creates a new topic they don't have to choose from 90 different tags, but instead limit it so that only the certain tags for each category.... ok i think i found out how to do this in each forum category.