Shouldn't automatically change my keyword

jfriend · June 27, 2010

I added the keyword "best-yosemite" to a bunch of my images. I clicked on the preview button in the bulk caption/keyword page and this is what the screen looked like:

I then hit the Save button and waited for the keyword best-yosemite to get indexed. It never, ever, ever did. What Smugmug did was strip the dash out of the keyword and apply a keyword of bestyosemite.

This UI is simply wrong and most users would consider it a bug because you applied a keyword that I did not enter. If you're not going to accept the keyword I apply, then don't automatically change it and apply a changed keyword without telling me you modified it. Tell me that it's an invalid keyword and tell me why it's invalid and let me choose what keyword I want to use. Or, alternatively make the preview function smart enough to show the modified keyword so I can see that it was changed BEFORE I hit Save.

Changing it behind my back without ever telling me is the wrong behavior.

devbobo · June 27, 2010

Hey John,

Unfortunately, a hypen is a special case...as it's used as the keyword delimiter for multiple keywords in the keyword url.

Personally, I don't like this...and I tried to change it when I wrote a lot of keyword logic last year, but the logic didn't scale unfortunately.

Cheers,

David

jfriend · June 27, 2010

devbobo wrote: »

Hey John,

Unfortunately, a hypen is a special case...as it's used as the keyword delimiter for multiple keywords in the keyword url.

Personally, I don't like this...and I tried to change it when I wrote a lot of keyword logic last year, but the logic didn't scale unfortunately.

Cheers,

David

I understand why you don't allow a hyphen in keywords. While, like you, I might have designed it differently to not have that restriction in the first place, that isn't what this complaint is about. My complaint is about how the UI automatically changes my keyword without telling me. That's just bad UI.

Andy · June 27, 2010

jfriend wrote: »

That's just bad UI.

I agree, and have raised this to some of our front end guys for a look. I think we should do something on that page to help the user better. Thanks John, for raising it!

jfriend · June 27, 2010

Andy wrote: »

I agree, and have raised this to some of our front end guys for a look. I think we should do something on that page to help the user better. Thanks John, for raising it!

Thanks Andy.

Shouldn't automatically change my keyword

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