Unable to set arbitrary tags on shows since redesign

brynet wrote 8 years ago: 1

The site redesign has made it impossible to add multiple tags for shows on the dashboard, it used to allow setting any arbitrary tag, but now it only supports shift selecting tags that are adjacent on the list.

https://www.tvmaze.com/dashboard/follows

This effects the usability a lot for me, as I have tags for different purposes, i.e: Archived and Hiatus, but I cannot set both simultaneously now without setting unrelated tags.. and if I attempt to change the tags on a show that have retained the tags, I cannot fix them.

Please go back to the old tag selection element, or repair this new one.

gazza911 wrote 8 years ago: 1

If you hold the Ctrl button on your keyboard whilst pressing the tag, you can turn individual tags on and off.

brynet wrote 8 years ago: 1

gazza911 wrote:
If you hold the Ctrl button on your keyboard whilst pressing the tag, you can turn individual tags on and off.

Thanks for the hint, that works.. this is so unintuitive but I don't blame these guys, I think this is a native web dropdown list element? *Sigh*

david wrote 8 years ago: 1

Hmm, help me out here. As far as I remember the UI was exactly the same before the layout changes. How do you recall it exactly?

On a related note, improving the UI for tags is a long standing wish and should happen in the near future.

brynet wrote 8 years ago: 1

david wrote:
Hmm, help me out here. As far as I remember the UI was exactly the same before the layout changes. How do you recall it exactly?
On a related note, improving the UI for tags is a long standing wish and should happen in the near future.

Before the change, set tags appeared above the selection and had little "x" icons to remove them, i.e: you could set new tags without impacting existing ones. I have no visual reference to this, but it was different to the way it is now and had a more intuitive interface.

david wrote 8 years ago: 1

Are you sure you're not mistaken with the https://www.tvmaze.com/dashboard/tags page?

brynet wrote 8 years ago: 1

david wrote:
Are you sure you're not mistaken with the https://www.tvmaze.com/dashboard/tags page?

Nope, I used this feature quite routinely. As mentioned in my original post, I would often change shows tags whenever they came and went on Hiatus, when shows Ended, or when I had Acquired them for later. gazza911's reply has allowed me to keep use tags again, and like I mentioned, I never had to hold down control. I pretty sure how it worked before was that you could type in tags, and when you selected them they locked into place, and then you could remove them by clicking an icon on them.

david wrote 8 years ago: 1

I thought you were talking about something different entirely, but now I get it. Thanks for being persistent :-)

Check it out now!

brynet wrote 8 years ago: 1

david wrote:
I thought you were talking about something different entirely, but now I get it. Thanks for being persistent :-)
Check it out now!

Yay! Thank you muchly.