FreeTag - problem with "reparse automatted tags"
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:26 pm
So I'm messing around with the keyword tags plugin because I wanted to get better utilization out of it. I wanted to use automated keywords, so that an entry, if it contains those words, gets certain tags assigned automagically. I had just never gotten around to it.
So I took one of my tags and added 3 automatic keywords. to it. Then I created a entry as a test using the one of the keywords, and sure enough, the proper tag was assigned as soon as I saved the entry. So far so good.
So the site had about 30-40 existing tags, but this one example was the only one that I supplied automated keywords for. I did a quicksearch and discovered that there were a total of 4 entries containing this same keyword. Rather than edit each entry, I see this option in the plugin that says "Reparse all automatted keywords".... so I'm thinking, "cool"... it will scan all entries for those automated keywords, assign the proper tag and save the entry.
I selected the option, and received a warning that all entries would, in fact, be scanned, but that it could also potentially cause problems... I'm thinking to myself that the problems could not be too bad, afterall, I had only supplied 3 automatic keywords to a single tag..... boy was I wrong about that!!!!
First, it tagged many more entries than what actually had the keywords according to quicksearch... now maybe quicksearch didn't return the correct result in the first place, I didn't take much time to investigate because I quickly became aware of the next problem: ALL other tags except that automated one were deleted..gone, vanished!!!
Next, ALL entries lost ALL categorization!! This is especially problematic because I was using the multi-category plugin and many entries had been assigned to more than a single category. The categories still exist, but none of the entries were assigned to ANY category.
And for the icing on the cake, all values stored in custom extended property fields were deleted. Every single one. The template was using 5 custom property fields per entry, and although the field itself still seems to exist for every entry, the values are all blank. Gone... all of it. Wierd because the table that holds that info also holds the cached entry body and cached extended body.
I'd love to say that fortunately I had a backup and recovered quickly... unfortunately, the backup was either corrupt, or not created correctly in the first place... I didn't actually create the backup, so I cannot be sure of anything other than mysql would not import it.
So, the only choice now is to reconstruct all these entries, recategorize them, create new tags, and populate all the extended property fields.
Info: Version 3.0 of the freetag plugin
Plugin queue:
Tagging of Entries
Markup: nl2br
google analytics
browser compat.
spam protector
category assignment
forgot password
contact form
spartacus
static pages
another contact form
extended properties for entries.
So I took one of my tags and added 3 automatic keywords. to it. Then I created a entry as a test using the one of the keywords, and sure enough, the proper tag was assigned as soon as I saved the entry. So far so good.
So the site had about 30-40 existing tags, but this one example was the only one that I supplied automated keywords for. I did a quicksearch and discovered that there were a total of 4 entries containing this same keyword. Rather than edit each entry, I see this option in the plugin that says "Reparse all automatted keywords".... so I'm thinking, "cool"... it will scan all entries for those automated keywords, assign the proper tag and save the entry.
I selected the option, and received a warning that all entries would, in fact, be scanned, but that it could also potentially cause problems... I'm thinking to myself that the problems could not be too bad, afterall, I had only supplied 3 automatic keywords to a single tag..... boy was I wrong about that!!!!
First, it tagged many more entries than what actually had the keywords according to quicksearch... now maybe quicksearch didn't return the correct result in the first place, I didn't take much time to investigate because I quickly became aware of the next problem: ALL other tags except that automated one were deleted..gone, vanished!!!
Next, ALL entries lost ALL categorization!! This is especially problematic because I was using the multi-category plugin and many entries had been assigned to more than a single category. The categories still exist, but none of the entries were assigned to ANY category.
And for the icing on the cake, all values stored in custom extended property fields were deleted. Every single one. The template was using 5 custom property fields per entry, and although the field itself still seems to exist for every entry, the values are all blank. Gone... all of it. Wierd because the table that holds that info also holds the cached entry body and cached extended body.
I'd love to say that fortunately I had a backup and recovered quickly... unfortunately, the backup was either corrupt, or not created correctly in the first place... I didn't actually create the backup, so I cannot be sure of anything other than mysql would not import it.
So, the only choice now is to reconstruct all these entries, recategorize them, create new tags, and populate all the extended property fields.
Info: Version 3.0 of the freetag plugin
Plugin queue:
Tagging of Entries
Markup: nl2br
google analytics
browser compat.
spam protector
category assignment
forgot password
contact form
spartacus
static pages
another contact form
extended properties for entries.