Give tagged files a name

[Renke Grunwald]

Hey,


I think, it was a good idea, if there was the capability to give tagged files a custom name. I expierenced problem, when i tried o tag a tutorial, containing a bunch of HTML files: I tagged index.html, which is the entrypoint of the tutorial, with some keywords, "tutorial","document" – this worked well.

When I seached for the tutorial by tags, i found index.html in the file browser, which is not really a clear name – if there would be a lot of more filed called index.html, i could not even find the right tutorial.

Renaming the index.html ist often a bad solution, because – in this case – path would become invalid, which means i could not browe trough the tutorial.

Since i think, tags should not contain the name of a file, but keywords, which describes the class of the file, it would be awesome, if there was a feature to give tagged files a "virtual" name, which doesnt change the file itself.


Regards,
Renke Grunwald

[tigger6333]

I understand what you are saying about filenames, but aren't tags like virtual filenames anyway?
If your bunch of web files, or even just the index file, is also tagged with the name you would have used as a virtual filename,
 that would work.

Cheers
tig

[Renke Grunwald]

Hey tigger6333,

basically you are right, but that would lead into chaos, if you would look into a situation, where you have got like 1000 index.htm files. Additionally it breaks the concept of tags, how i unstand it. Tags just describe the a class of files, which are related in some way.

Usually the real file name should make a file unique in its belonging class, but this often might not be possible, as my example shows.

Regards,
Renke Grunwald

[tigger6333]

I see what you mean Renke.

One way I have overcome this problem is to have a copy of the index.html file in the same folder as index.html.
The copy I can call what I like, to remind me of where to start. I use _index.html because then it is listed first but it could quite easily be how_to_make_a_gif.html (or whatever the topic content is, or whatever name you want to remind you of it's content). So this is the file you use to start your browsing. Then when a file references index.html it finds the
REAL index.html. To the user it looks the same and helps alleviate this "which file do I start with" problem.

Hope this helps a little.

Cheers
Tig

[martin]

Hi,

I see what you are pointing at and I agree that in the case of index.html it would increase readability. We will investigate the idea further if/how we can add support for this without becoming to confusing to end-users.

One workaround at the moment would be to create a shortcut to the index.html and tag the shortcut instead of the index.html.

Best regards,
Martin