Should I enter tags twice in Tag v.2.0 ?

Once you go through the harvesting exercise, the custom field isn’t needed anymore. I have deleted it without obvious ill effects.

Once you go through the harvesting exercise, the custom field isn’t needed anymore. I have deleted it without obvious ill effects.

Harvesting has no relation to this problem.

Because “Keywords:” is outside the Tag Module v.2 code.

If I delete IF AND I have no tags in the custom field in an entry, the entry will show:

Keywords:

(with no tags)

I wrote about that in the Solspace forum: http://www.solspace.com/forums/viewreply/1560/

Maybe I need to use PHP to solve this problem and to use the Tag Tab only?

My bad.

I can’t find a functional equivalent in the docs for 2.0, but then I’m a notoriously poor reader of manuals.

Creative use of the query module will do the trick – create a query to count the number of tags for the given entry_id and use the result for the conditional.

It should also be possible to write an extension that provides a variable like tag_count.

See this post on the solspace forums.

Thanks a lot!

Now I see that is not my personal problem, that is an issue connected with Version 2.

So, any solution in such a situation is temporary only.

I agree with:

I guess we will have to wait until the Solspace people come up with a {no_tags} variable or something similar.

So, I choose to enter tags twice now than to reprogram the system (now and after developing the new parameter).

Here’s a workaround using the query module:

{exp:query sql="SELECT COUNT(entry_id) AS tag_count FROM exp_tag_entries WHERE entry_id = '{entry_id}' "}

{if tag_count}
Tags: (do whatever)
{/if}

{/exp:query}

I’ll see if this can be done as an extension so that no changes to the template are required – other than perhaps renaming the variable used in the conditional.

Another very interesting solution:

{exp:tag:tags entry_id="{entry_id}" type="weblog" limit="1"}Keywords: {/exp:tag:tags}

http://www.solspace.com/forums/viewthread/396/#1595

That’s a good one, but I hope these kinds of workarounds aren’t needed as of Tag 2.0.10 😉

Here’s a simple plugin that seems to do the trick for me.

{if {exp:tagcount entry_id="{entry_id}"}}
Tags: (whatever)
{/if}

Clumsy code, but you get what you pay for. I’m sure the Solspace folks can find a better solution.

Does anybody know how to avoid the need of passing in entry_id as a parameter?