Killer Keywords
In many situations, you'd think the easiest solution would be the best. Saving time and getting the job done quickly. This, however, just isn't the case if you're going to allow users to use a simple text field for managing keywords or tags. A tagging system relies on making it easy for the user, but it may not be so easy to implement itself. Here are a few questions you might be faced with.
What happens when one user enters "devloper" on record 1 and another user enters the correctly spelled "developer" on record 2? How do you make it easy to rapidly enter multiple keywords with a high degree of accuracy? What about removing keywords from this simple text field? Does the user just get to remove any portion of a whole word - causing a data nightmare? What about those commas being used to separate the keywords? Do you really trust users to get it right all the time? Can users be trusted to add multi-word keywords and get the commas correct?
The answer to all of those questions comes down to you. As the developer controlling the situation, you get to make sure the data is entered as desired and is still easy for the end user. And, in that case, the system is going to be a bit more complex than using a simple text field to allow users to enter whatever they want.
The video and technique file for this topic showcase a wonderful system of being able to enter and remove keywords used for data segmentation. If you've implemented a tagging system prior, then make sure and take a look at this one because you may find some UI niceness that's just too good to pass up!
Comments
Issue with deletion
Nice technique.
I discovered a small issue. The deletion does not appear to be working in version 16 - Get ( ActiveSelectionStart ) is returning a different value in v16 than is returned in v17 or later.
Multi-words Keywords
Thank you for this excellent technique!
Just a small suggestion for the keywords composed by more than one word: if you define the keywordsList field with the Auto-enter calculation - replacing existing value:
Substitute ( Self , " " , " " ) [first value being a normal space, second being a non-breaking space (unicode 160)]
when you want to delete a multi-words keyword, just double-clicking once selects the whole keyword.
No adverse effects, as far as I can see.
marcodezordo
re: Multi-words Keywords
Nice idea!
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Daniel Farnan
Ignorance is curable, not preventable
Bug not
I have used Go to Object [Object name: "field.keywords", Repetition: 2] and it works. Seems you forgot to specify Repetition number.
So it is not a bug :)
Please specify
Where? In Script or Custom Function?
Sample file not working on Windows 10 (FM19)
After downloading and unzipping... as I launch the sample file, it launches and then proceeds to shutdown. Might this be the problem with not running on a Macintosh system?
Find Tags Implementing
Very Nice technique; now would like see it completed with a search for a tag in which records it is predicted or a list of names related to the specific tag searched.
Love it!
Absolutely perfect! Thank you. (maybe a reminder to new people or new to current version to turn on 'use advanced tools' in preferences to get custom functions to work. That kinda took me a minute. :-) For those reading comments: (Edit --> Preferences --> [check] 'Use advanced tools', then restart FM.)