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    Issue: Tags are Lost After Upgrade

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    1. issueid=3126 June 15, 2013 10:15 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Tags are Lost After Upgrade

      Quote Originally Posted by pegasus View Post
      Since you mention it, thread tags are already lost when upgrading from VaultWiki 3 to VaultWiki 4. Ideally thread tags should be converted to wiki categories.
      vb thread tags are vital to my SE traffic and SEO. It would really hurt my sites to have the tags converted to categories. I concur that categories are almost the same as tags, but the main difference is that vb thread tags combine content from various content types. Another difference is that while a category is essentially a tag, a tag is not a category. Many tags are simple singular narrow concepts. Categories are containers of concepts.

      In XenForo's XenTag it combines content from all content types. This approach is optimal and is as it should have been in vbulletin.
      I would be very amazed if XF does not add tags in one of the upcoming releases. Its the 4th popular suggestion and they are implementing pretty much every popular suggestion. I think this is something to consider.
    Issue Details
    Issue Number 3126
    Issue Type Bug
    Project VaultWiki 4.x Series
    Category Install / Upgrade
    Status Fixed
    Priority 1 - Security / Login / Data Loss
    Affected Version 4.0.0 Beta 1
    Fixed Version 4.0.0 Beta 4
    Milestone VaultWiki 4 Beta X
    Software DependencyvBulletin 3.x
    License TypePaid
    Users able to reproduce bug 0
    Users unable to reproduce bug 0
    Attachments 0
    Assigned Users (none)
    Tags (none)




    1. June 24, 2013 11:32 AM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      Since cross-content-type tags are supported in vBulletin 4, we can simply duplicate the entries from the old threads for the wiki content-type. For vBulletin 3, thread tags are only for threads, so without reinventing the wheel, we can store the old tags in a dormant table so they are at least not lost. If the forum is upgraded to a vB4 or 5 which supports tags in other content types, they would become available again. If the wiki is imported to another forum that supports tags natively, likewise this table would be imported properly; otherwise the dormant data would be imported.

      Maybe in a few releases we can focus on creating a tagging solution for forums that don't have one in the core software. For now the focus should at least be preventing the data loss of existing tags before VaultWiki 3 and 4.
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    2. July 21, 2013 9:17 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      Added a step to the upgrade script to attempt to find tags that were overlooked during the upgrade to Alpha 1.
      Tags are manageable under vB4, since there is built-in support for multiple content-types. Tags are hidden but not lost in other platforms and versions.

      Still need to add a dedicated VW3 importer step.
      Also need to add support to the page DM for auto-tags and automatically adding categories as tags.
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    3. July 23, 2013 9:29 AM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      Importer steps complete.
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    4. July 23, 2013 10:42 AM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      Marking this as complete. The original issue of data loss has been corrected. Providing a fully-fledged tagging feature (referring to my mention of auto-tagging) is not the focus of this report.
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