DTTG4: Tagging with a GroupTag created a new Tag

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I use group tags a lot, notably to easily replicate an item/group in various thematic group tags.

Here’s likely an undesired behaviour:

I started typing an existing group tag name in the tag field in the info panel of a group, DTTG4 on iPad mini, then the little + appeared and i selected the desired group tag that it proposed. but in the end DTTG4 created a new tag with the same name rather than assigning the group tag.

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Thank you for the report, that is indeed undesired. @aedwards, can you reproduce?

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I haven’t been able to reproduce this in either in DTTG or Clip to DT.

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Maybe related to the DB size, 8000 groups, 3000 are group-tags. I remember that while typing in the new tag, it froze for a few seconds at every letter.

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Thanks I will create a larger DB.

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  • Do you have redundant groups?
  • Do you have tags and groups with the same name, e.g, a group 2025 and a tag 2025 ?

PS: Why do you have 8000 groups? It’s obviously not that you can’t. I’m asking why you would.

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redundant groups: wdym?

tags and groups with the same name:

  • pure-tags homonymous to pure-groups? no.
  • group tags with a same name? could be (I didnt check all 3k group-tags).

why 8000 groups: I create a group for every article I read, every course I follow etc. in which I store the article PDF, the excerpts export from it, some notes/thoughts about it. it’s also that group that will have the bibliographic metadata, not the PDF.

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These would be redundant groups.

I’m trying to build a test database for this reported issue so the closer to your environment, the better.

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I could replicate the issue in my main Inbox DB (very small, very few tags or groups) and purely on DTTG4.0.2, with “Exclude groups from tagging” unchecked at DB-level, by either:

  1. Creating a tag AAAAAA in Tags, then moving it out of Tags, then opening a document a tagging it with AAA+ => AAAAAA. Result: it creates a new AAAAAA tag in Tags.
  2. Creating a group BBBBBB in the main Inbox, then making sure it can be used for tagging, then opening a document a tagging it with BBB+ => BBBBBB. Result: it creates a new BBBBBB tag in Tags.