Tags quandary - how do I merge tag that have different case

[Farayi Chambati]

I have a tag like "Movie" and "movie". How do I rename one or how I merge these? My queries are now very complicated because of this. OR what do you recommend?

[RichardWilliamSmith]

Hi Farayi,

I made this for you, it's a "tag re-tagger" - it can swap one tag for another (existing) tag over all tiddlers. let me know if it works. Please make a copy of your wiki before using it.

Copy the following into a tiddler - it doesn't matter what it's called;

!!!This removes one tag and adds another

Be careful. There is no undo.

<table>

<tr>

<td>

remove

</td>

<td>

<$select tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> field="tagtoremove" default='notset'>

<$list filter='[all[tiddlers]tags[]]'>

<option value=<<currentTiddler>> field="tagtoremove"><$view field='title'/></option>

</$list>

</$select>

</td>

<td>

and add

</td>

<td>

<$select tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> field="tagtoadd" default='notset'>

<$list filter='[all[tiddlers]tags[]]'>

<option value=<<currentTiddler>> field="tagtoadd"><$view field='title'/></option>

</$list>

</$select>

</td>

<td>

<$set name="newTag" value={{!!tagtoadd}}>

<$set name="oldTag" value={{!!tagtoremove}}>

<$button>

<$list filter="[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag{!!tagtoremove}]">

<$fieldmangler>

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-add-tag" $param=<<newTag>>/>

<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-remove-tag" $param=<<oldTag>>/>

</$fieldmangler>

</$list>

Click me!

</$button>

</$set>

</$set>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>

</td>

<td>

<$list filter="[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag{!!tagtoremove}]">

<li><$link>{{!!title}}</$link></li>

</$list>

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

<$list filter="[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag{!!tagtoadd}]">

<li><$link>{{!!title}}</$link></li>

</$list>

</td>

<td>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

If you want to put this tool in the control panel, give it the tag $:/tags/ControlPanel and if you want it to disappear from the regular search results, give it a title that starts with $:/

Regards,

Richard

[Farayi Chambati]

Much appreciated RichardWilliamSmith,

I will have a play in a sandbox and I will add it into production.

[reakt...@gmail.com]

You may also want to check out the Search and Replace Tag wizard - http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#Search%20And%20Replace%20Tag

[Farayi Chambati]

Thanks RichardWilliamSmith again. The utility worked a treat. I have applied in the production file.

Best regards,

[Farayi Chambati]

Thanks Reakt..

[Matabele]

Hi Farayi

The ActionListops widget is designed for this kind of operation and simplifies code considerably -- to search and replace a tag use with the replace[] filter operator like so:

<$button>
<$list filter="[tag[oldtag]]">
<$action-listops $tags="newtag +[replace[oldtag]]"/>
</$list>
Do This
</$button>

-- the $tags filter will operate on the 'tags' field of the current tiddler

-- the 'newtag' entry appends the tag to replace with to the end of the list

-- the replace[oldtag] filter operator searches for 'oldtag' and replaces it with the last item in the list ('newtag' in this case)

-- the list filter is used to select the list of tiddlers to operate on (this may be any listing -- in this case the list of tiddlers with 'oldtag')

Hope this helps

regards

[Farayi Chambati]

Thanks Matabele.