How to Edit a Single Tag?

LimJK said:

However, if I just want to rename One Tag of One Resource, how can I do that? As I was not on Beta until RC1 ... I might have missed something very obvious. However, if indeed it is a missing function, Can we add to the right mouse click context menu:

• Rename Tag 

Or allow us to edit the Tag the old way; I got so used to the old way of tagging and renaming tag after so many hours of tagging over the last two years. My current work around is to delete the Tag by clicking on "x" after the tag and re-tag it in 2 steps  

You can edit the tag on the very right by putting the cursor after the tag and clicking backspace/delete. But you can't edit a tag like this if it's one of the first tags or in the middle [:(]

I will make a case to add "Rename Tag" to the right click context menu so that renaming one tag of one resource will be possible. 

NB.Mick said:

Angela Murashov said:

I will make a case to add "Rename Tag" to the right click context menu so that renaming one tag of one resource will be possible. 

Please make that "Change Tag", otherwise it leads to confusion.

Conceptually, the tag called "XYZ" exists somewhere in the universe and is describing something (e.g. the however defined group of all critical commentaries on the NT). It is only assigned to a resource. If I rename it "on all resources" that's the same as just renaming it: I decide to call that same tag now "ABC" - or "CritComNT" - which of course doesn't change 'itself'.

If I change a tag on one resource, I don't rename it, I assign another tag to that resource - e.g. "DevotionalComNT". The difference will become more clear if you keep in mind the continued existence of the concept called "CritComNT" (which may be assigned to other resources).  

Mick

I think that renaming a tag (which would affect it on all resources it's assigned to) should be possible in this context and should be on the right-click menu. Editing the tag (which is what we used to be able to do) to change it to a different, possibly new tag, should also be possible, but I think is less common. I think it makes sense to have to delete the tag and assign a different one to accomplish the latter. If the continued existence of the concept called "CritComNT" is understood, then editing it in place and changing it to DevotionalComNT in this context would be very confusing. It might make me think I'm changing the name of the tag. If I accidentally had assigned CritComNT to a resource and realized later it should be DevotionalComNT, I would expect to have to delete the former and add the latter, even though the names of the two tags are coincidentally similar and I could save myself some typing if I could just change Crit to Devotional. Every other system I know that uses tags with boxes around them and x's on them (e.g., Delicious, Letterboxd) does not let you edit the text of the tag in situ. You have to delete and type it in again.

Angela Murashov said:

NB.Mick said:

Please make that "Change Tag", otherwise it leads to confusion.

Thank you for the suggestion, I will add it to the case.  

Angela, please read my (admittedly too long) reply above as to why I don't think this is a good idea, but will rather add confusion.

Angela Murashov said:

I will make a case to add "Rename Tag" to the right click context menu so that renaming one tag of one resource will be possible. 

[Y]  That was on my long mental list of things to post about.

NB.Mick said:

Please make that "Change Tag"

Personally I find that worse than Rename. How about Edit Tag and Edit Tag In All Resources? Most of the time, I don't want to 'change' or 'rename' tags, I simply want to fix a typo. Edit seems to cover everything.

Rosie Perera said:

Editing the tag (which is what we used to be able to do) to change it to a different, possibly new tag, should also be possible, but I think is less common.

To the contrary, I would think it's ten times more common. Or do you never make typos? I know I do.

Rosie Perera said:

editing it in place and changing it to DevotionalComNT in this context would be very confusing

How? If the right-click menu includes both a Rename/Edit Tag and a Rename/Edit Tag In All Resources, isn't that clear enough? (And if not, how about making the former Rename/Edit Tag In This Resource?)

What I find confusing is that clicking on a tag filters the library. As a Mac user I expect that to make the tag editable. I would have preferred one click for editing and a double-click to filter the library. But I can live with that.

What I really found confusing, though, was when I first found a tag with a typo in it, selected all the resources with that tag, right-clicked to edit, found no such option, and later realized that the way to do it was not to select all resources you wanted to change, but to select just one. That's kind of counterintuitive...

Logos, are you planning to redesign the multi-select tagging panel as well? It needs to be done. In this case the tag was a typo, so, once I figured it out, I could correct it for all resources at once -- but what if I have 320 resources with one tag and want to change 97 of them to a new tag? That needs to be possible.

NB.Mick said:

re typo correction: if a tag is misspelled (or spelled inconsistently) on one or some books, renaming it to the consistent spelling is really a "renaming". And the feature "rename in all resources" is fine for that

I'd still like a way to "rename in selected resources" or "replace in selected resources"; For example, if I've realized that I mistagged a bunch of my OT resources (but not all of them) as NTStudies, I might want to select a bunch of them and change that tag in them to OTStudies, but not rename the entire NTStudies tag as OTStudies throughout my library.

I think an estimate would good.

Since some of us are dead in the water, in between the nutty design and the hare-brained 'back to the top' every time that you make more than a couple changes.

I ordered myself to not update Logos and stupid me, ignored my orders.  So being a rabbit, I'm certainly to blame.

I imagine someone wearing a rabbit-suit and breaking into Logos HQ armed with a stylus ... 'use tags, you coders!' (or designers).