Download Keywords / Tagging

[Delphy]

Hi All,

A new (well, actually, I wrote the system ages ago, just never put it on the main servers) way of including your downloads in search results, as well as specifying "extra" keywords for your items has been introduced here on MTS2.

Creators can now add keywords to thier threads, which can then be used in the advanced search, and later on for making "collections" of similarly tagged items (for example, one use would be to display all threads which are tagged as "medieval")

You can find this new feature in the "Edit" option underneath the download post - it's the "Search Keywords" field.

Any questions/comments, let me know.

Regards
Delphy

[spmjcom]

Thanks!

[Zephyr Drake the Catqueen]

Great! I had a awful time trying to find gothic stuff, I guess this'll make it better. :)

[Dwinar]

I think this is very useful improvement, searching will be from now on easier :up: :Pint: :up:

[selfmadequeen]

awesome. Is there a way for creators to edit their previous uploads to include keywords?

[Vampire7639]

Great, that should totally help with downloading :)

[SwtNess2]

great addition to an already awesome site. thanks.

[SPARADISE]

Awesome idea, I just finished editing my post with keywords :)

[thomaswest8t]

yeah i noticed that, pretty usefull ,thanks!

[Ailias]

Very useful site upgrade
I need to tag som of my threads soon :)

[en7en]

Sparadise: Just checked out your post. Be careful: Tags are separated by commas or spaces. That means that if you write "stone castle, medieval", you've created 3 tags ('stone', 'castle', and 'medieval'), not 2.

Another thought: if we all get serious about tagging our uploads, and enough tags emerge, it might eventually allow Delphy to enable some tag-based navigation on the site. So let's all go and tag our past uploads!

[Purplepaws]

Great, this will make searching so much easier! Thanks, Delphy!

[Pixelhate]

Very useful and user friendly Thank !

[jhd1189]

Thank you so much, Delphy! That's a brilliant idea!

[deviantinvader]

Sounds like an excellent idea Delphy. This will make finding things so much easier. Thank-you.

-deviantinvader

[ciril34]

hello , i'm happy

[jhd1189]

Wait, Delphy... there seems to be a problem with this: I'm not sure whether this was just a problem on my computer or not, but adding tags to my uploaded lot caused the text in my lot description to become invisible. When I removed the tags, the text in the post became visible again. I just thought I'd report this, in case anyone else has the same problem. (I PMed you too, in case you don't see this :))

[pfish]

Wait, Delphy... there seems to be a problem with this: I'm not sure whether this was just a problem on my computer or not, but adding tags to my uploaded lot caused the text in my lot description to become invisible. When I removed the tags, the text in the post became visible again. I just thought I'd report this, in case anyone else has the same problem. (I PMed you too, in case you don't see this :))

You can leave your thread after editing keyswords, then enter your same thread. Keyswords will be shown then. It happened to me, too. I did the same and words came back just finely. :)

Edit: When I entered my thread, words did not show up. I waited a few seconds and scroll down a little then words came back. Is this supposed to be like that?

Edit: jhd1189 is right after all. I took keyswords off my few threads. I will wait until this is fixed first.

[jhd1189]

That's what I meant. The original thread disappears, and you have to highlight it to make it visible.

Edit: jhd1189 is right after all. I took keyswords off my few threads. I will wait until this is fixed first.

hehehe... sorry, lol. Anyway... I'm glad I noticed that before everyone updated their uploads... that would have been messy.

[Astymma]

Looking at the source to the pages, I'm seeing that the DIV with the description text uses class="bodytable" and the definition has an odd entry for color (underlined)...
.bodytable { background-color:#B0E2FF; color: #000; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
This could be why the odd text behavior is happening.

edit: This was with the "Blue Skies" style.

[zookini]

This is so helpful! Thanks Delphy. :) *Runs off to go update...*

[jhd1189]

edit: This was with the "Blue Skies" style.

Ahh... same with me. I probably should have mentioned that.

[jaxad0127]

Thats a valid color code. Its shorthand for #000000. Its happening under blue game style as well.

[Astymma]

Thats a valid color code. Its shorthand for #000000...

Ahh cool, thanks for the info.

Only other oddness I see is...
<p><small>Keywords: medieval <p></small>

Just doesn't seem like this would cause the odd behavior to happen.

[jaxad0127]

No, that wouldn't do it either. Thats just bad HTML.

[Sim Master]

This should make finding things more convenient! Thanks, Delphy! :)

[Astymma]

For the record, it happens to me with IE v. 6.0.2800.1106

[jaxad0127]

It seems to be IE only.

[Astymma]

Saw this on a website talking about disappearing text in IE...

The solution
Plone 2.1 (and later versions of the 2.0 series) contain a CSS class called visualIEFloatFix which applies the so-called "Holly hack" to get around bugs in the Internet Explorer rendering engine.

The rule looks like this:

* html .visualIEFloatFix { height: 0.01%; }

The * html part is to hide it from Internet Explorer 5 on Mac, which has a totally different rendering engine, and does not exhibit this problem. Additionally, we have structures in Plone that hide this rule from all browsers that are not Internet Explorer (without using browser sniffing), so no other browsers get this style sheet. So it's perfectly safe in us on any browser.

If you use a version of Plone that is older than 2.1, please check that your visualIEFloatFix matches the above, since this bug has gone through a few iterations before reaching its current form.

What this rule does is to apply a very small height to the element, forcing Internet Explorer into something called "layout mode". The reason for the disappearing text problem is that IE caches the size of elements erroneously when handling floating elements, and setting a very small height forces Internet Explorer to re-calculate the height - thus making the text appear again.

edit: found at this site (http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/internet-explorer-invisible-text)

[lipandan]

thinks ,i'm want it!

[mizskellington]

Wonderful! I was wondering why this place didn't have a feature like that. And now it does! WOOT!

[SPARADISE]

Sparadise: Just checked out your post. Be careful: Tags are separated by commas or spaces. That means that if you write "stone castle, medieval", you've created 3 tags ('stone', 'castle', and 'medieval'), not 2.
Thanks en7en! :)

[davidgaber]

look cool

[pfish]

It seems to be IE only.

But I have firefox with calm storm color style.

[crazy4sims]

this qestion was proberly asked earlyer (but i'm lazy and don't want to read all the pervios posts :P )
but here's my Q: will we need to up-date or change anything in the existing downloads??

[jaxad0127]

pfish, happens to me in IE (version 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) but not FireFox (version 1.5.0.3).
crazy4sims, only if you want.

[Hardy boyz]

Thanks!
Wonderful, will be much more easy to find things you want now :)

//HB

[Delphy]

Okay the invisible post text bug is now fixed - actually was just that bad HTML when displaying the keywords but only on the rounded corners style (I use the non-rounded corners one and it worked fine).

Thanks for the reports.

[amberandcarlos33]

I am not seeing where this "Edit" thing is. Maybe it's just me but I'm not sure where to look.

Thanks,
Amber

[lamammaforever]

Well done Delphy, thanks a lot, another site improvement. ciao

[moonlight_muse]

Great idea,
and it will be very useful
thanks :)

[hacplay]

is a good collection and big

[jaxad0127]

amberandcarlos33, it should be on the bottom left of the first post.

[animejosse]

What a coincidence, a few days ago I was surfing DeviantArt and thinking about how much easier it'd be if MtS also had tags. Thank you so much!

[maybesomethingdunno]

Great addition; thank you! :)

[jhd1189]

Thanks so much for fixing this, Delphy! It really is a brilliant idea. :D

[sims2guy]

Have to agree as well that its a great idea. Also have to update all my uploads now...

[mininessie]

thanks,is a good idea. :up:

[Cleoh]

Thanks a lot !

A very usefull feature.

[EnblithTheFair]

This is a great new feature! It will make finding things a lot easier. I'll go update my posts now...

[amberandcarlos33]

amberandcarlos33, it should be on the bottom left of the first post.

All I see is Thread Tools and Search This Thread. When I pull down the collapsible list under Thread Tools I get: "Show Printable version. E-mail this page. Subscribe to this thread." When I pull down the Collapsible list under "Search This Thread I get: Search this thread. Advanced search." That's all I see. I don't see an "Edit" selection, nor do I see a "Search Keywords" phrase. I am using the Blue Skies style. I don't know if that has anything to do with it since I saw some people mentioning it. Any suggestions, or am I just a dumb blonde and it's right in front of my nose? Silly me. *shakes head*

Thanks,
Amber

[jaxad0127]

Look here: http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/jaxad0127/edit.jpg

[crazy4sims]

will there be stats on the most used search terms?

[niol]

Wow, this's a cool feature... Thanks for making this...

Just wonder how to avoid intentional abuse or honest mis-use...

[amberandcarlos33]

Look here: http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/jaxad0127/edit.jpg

Here's what I see:
"http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h236/amberandcarlos33/example.jpg"

[jaxad0127]

Thats not your thread, though. You'll only see the button/link on your threads.

[eddief66]

I think she's saying that she can't see your pic, but I can see it just fine.

[jaxad0127]

She see's my pic, but her pic is from one of en7en's threads, not one of her's, so she won't see the button.

[miahaglund4]

Great! Thankyou! Me as an user is most thankful! Thanks again!! Mia

[putowtin]

great Idea Delphy, no wonder your the king!!!

[Corylea]

Wow. This is already the best sims site around, and now Delphy's made it even better!

[MyMind23]

This site is realy the best i ever see. :!:
You all make a good job. :up:
I thik the site cant be better becouse it is the best site ever. :king:
I love them :lovestruc

[sisko]

:) Er meint mit den News das momentan die Seite umgebaut wird und auch der Adultcontent auf eine seperate Seite gelegt werden soll. Das ganze soll im laufe dieser Woche fertig sein, aber bei so einen Seitenumbau kann das auch mal etwas laenger dauern.

Was brauchst du denn genau? Vielleicht kann ich dir da helfen und dir was senden.

[Pipino61]

hi,
my name is daria and im from germany. i have a problem becouse my english is bad an i can understand sometimes what the people write in the forums and downloads....so...my problem is...i need some skins from the adult downloads but it isnt now here and i cant understand what delphy mean with:
We have decided to split off all adult content to a seperate site, similar to the way that the general discussion / sims forums where split off into http://www.Sims2Community.com/ last year
can someone help me please...???

Oh if you need help just ask me :-)
I will now translate it for you.

Wir haben entschieden alle Erwachseneninhalte auf eine getrennte Seite auszulagern aehnlich der Weise wie die allgemeine Diskussion / Sims Foren
letztes Jahr getrennt wurden.

Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass Du deshalb ein Kleid nicht mehr finden kannst,
welches dort einmal zum Herunterladen gewesen ist.
Also mein Deutsch ist nicht gerade astrein, aber ich hoffe Du verstehst was ich meine.

[jaxad0127]

English please. :)

:) Er meint mit den News das momentan die Seite umgebaut wird und auch der Adultcontent auf eine seperate Seite gelegt werden soll. Das ganze soll im laufe dieser Woche fertig sein, aber bei so einen Seitenumbau kann das auch mal etwas laenger dauern.

Was brauchst du denn genau? Vielleicht kann ich dir da helfen und dir was senden.:) He means with the news that momentarily the side is converted and also the Adultcontent on a September-guessed/advised side to be put is. The whole is in runs this week to be finished, but can with so a side change also times somewhat longer last.

What exactly do you need? Perhaps I can you there help and you which send.

Wir haben entschieden alle Erwachseneninhalte auf eine getrennte Seite auszulagern aehnlich der Weise wie die allgemeine Diskussion / Sims Foren
letztes Jahr getrennt wurden.

Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass Du deshalb ein Kleid nicht mehr finden kannst,
welches dort einmal zum Herunterladen gewesen ist.
Also mein Deutsch ist nicht gerade astrein, aber ich hoffe Du verstehst was ich meine.
We have decided all adult contents out on a separate side to page similarly the way like the general discussion/windshield frame section forums last year were separated.

That means however not that you cannot find therefore a dress any longer, which was there once for downloading. Thus my German is not straight branch clean, but I hope you understand which I mean.

You can post in other languages as long as you provide a translation. :jest:

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Thank you!!! Best of luck with every thing you do.

[smirnoff]

i'm french and i have don't understand what do for subscription?

[smirnoff]

i'm french and i have don't understand what do for stop subscription ?

[Katt6]

ohmagod Delphie your ok they told me you fell out a window or got kidnapped or somthin Im so glad you are okay

[sisko]

:blink: sorry

[julianarosalia]

Please see the News thread about the changes to the Adult section: http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=158720

:alarm: Since I know that Delphy knows everything about this site;
Why can't I access adult site,since I've been "legal" for ahwile now??

[debwilldo]

Now this is extemely helpful,especially for someone like me who's motherboard/modem was fried, and I've lost ALL of my wonderful dls(most of them from here).
I hope to find all of the beautiful and unique files once again;lesson learned from this...I've added a disk burner to my computer.;)
Oh! I digress! Back to the subject at hand, Thanks!:D

:alarm: Since I know that Delphy knows everything about this site;
Why can't I access adult site,since I've been "legal" for ahwile now??

how embarrassing. while my 7 month old was "power napping", i scrolled around and saw the post. :turtle: sorry. thanks. :P

[Zeir666]

THank you, i was wating for this. By the way wen it is up and running will you please anonce it. And thank you again.

[hell999]

oo.. lol