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diff --git a/doc/bugs/tags_base_dir_not_used_when_creating_new_tags.mdwn b/doc/bugs/tags_base_dir_not_used_when_creating_new_tags.mdwn index 046c025ea..71a9ece33 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/tags_base_dir_not_used_when_creating_new_tags.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/tags_base_dir_not_used_when_creating_new_tags.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,40 @@ I'm using the tags plugin with tagbase="tags". -Already existing tags, corresponding to pages like tags/foo.html work just fine. +Already existing tags, corresponding to pages like tags/foo.html work just +fine. -If I add to a page a tag which is not existing (e.g. with [[tag newtag]]) the just modified page will have a link which point to tags/newtag. This is in theory correct, but in practice leads to creating a tags/newtag subpage of the page I'm editing, while my tagbase is supposed to be relative to the wiki root. +If I add to a page a tag which is not existing (e.g. with [[tag newtag]]) +the just modified page will have a link which point to tags/newtag. This is +in theory correct, but in practice leads to creating a tags/newtag subpage +of the page I'm editing, while my tagbase is supposed to be relative to the +wiki root. -When used in a wiki which already have some tags this leads to mixing up tags located in tags/ and tags located in whatever/tags/.
\ No newline at end of file +When used in a wiki which already have some tags this leads to mixing up +tags located in tags/ and tags located in whatever/tags/. + +> When a new page is being edited, ikiwiki lets you chose where the page +> will be created, so you'll get a dropdown list of possible locations for +> the tag page. You should be able to choose between either tags/foo or +> page/tags/foo. +> +> The way that ikiwiki decides which location to default to in this box is +> fairly involved; but in general it will default to creating the page at +> the same level as the tagged page. So if the tag is on any toplevel page +> in the wiki, it will default to creating `tags/foo`; if the tag is on a +> page in a subdirectory, it will default to creating subdir/tags/foo. +> +> I personally like this behavior; it allows me to create a subdirectory +> for a particular thing and use tags that are specific to that thing, +> which are kept confined to that subdirectory by default. For example, +> this is used for ikiwiki's own plugins tags, which are all located +> under plugins/type/* and which apply to pages under plugins/*. +> +> It's clearly not the right default for every situation though. Explcitly +> setting a tagbase probably lessons the likelyhood that it's the right +> default for things under that tag base. I'd not be opposed to adding a +> special case to change the default in this case, or adding a +> configuration option to change the default globally. On the other hand, +> it is pretty simple to just check the location and select the right one +> from the list when creating a new page.. +> +> --[[Joey]] |