multi word tags

[Rose Humphrey]

I am often quite generous with my tagging - just because I can!
Over the last few weeks I have discovered that some of my tags don’t work.

For instance on the photo I have just published

‘near you’ has worked fine ‘St John the Baptist’ as you can see has rearranged itself!
I don’t remember this being a problem until recently. Has anyone else noticed a problem with tagging. Is it that you can only put two words in a tag and I have never noticed - in over 2 years!

[Jase]

Try using double quotes "St John the Baptist" and not the single ones you currently seem to be using. Works fine for me

@daffodill

[Tami Skipper]

Yes, use the quotes for your phrases. I just tried it, too.

[Mel]

Thanks for this, I was wondering too!

[Rose Humphrey]

Tried that - doesn’t work :(

[☠northy]

And I think you can't use apostrophes - my tags have gotten screwed up and I think that's why... So if you want to write short form of "is not" I think you have to write "isnt" not "isn't"

[Rachel Holbrook]

Maybe it's a Mac problem, Rose?
Does anyone else having problems use a Mac, eg, @northy ?

[Jase]

I just looked and you still have single quotes in there, double quotes work fine as I use them all the time, lose the single quotes and comma's.

@daffodill

[Cameron Knowlton]

I use Lightroom 4, and I've taken to using double-quotes for my phrases, and commas between all words/phrases. This seems to be the happy medium that works for all 3 of my keyphrase resources: Lightroom, 365Project, and Flickr. Each resource will take that format and convert it to what it wants.

[Rose Humphrey]

@jase_h I guess it must be a mac or Safari thing. I have changed to “ but it appears not to make any difference.
Irritating, but no the end of the world.

[Rose Humphrey]

Also, not quite sure what comma’s are referred to.
Any that appear have been added by the system, not by me!

[Jase]

Hmmm, not sure then. Mac's are a complete mystery to me :)

@daffodill

[Robin]

@daffodill I use single quotes around all my phrases and have no problems. It may be that you've used quotes or other punctuation within your quotes (if you get what I mean). You should be able to tag ' St john the baptist' exactly as I've written it and have it work for you. In fact, I've just entered that tag on one of my shots - see http://365project.org/girlie/365/2013-01-25 - and it's fine. I'd suggest deleting the words from your tag then trying again as above. By the way, I use a Mac and Safari and there is absolutely no problem with either. @rvm @jase_h
(PS If and when you check out my St John the B tag, pls let me know so I can remove it from my shot!?)

[Robin]

PS It can be an annoying problem so suggest, if this doesn't work, you send an email to Ross at [e-mail] or tag him @Scrivna.

[Ross S.]

hi, i think people have explained but yeah, use double quotes.... " ...to join multiple words in to a tag, and no punctuation allowed in tags, just alpha-numerals.

[Julie]

Thanks for the tip. I had no idea about the " " for multi-word tags.

[Tone Linn]

@daffodill @Scrivna
Whenever I use double quotes they turn into single ones when I hit the "save the photo"-button. But I don't think my long phrases has been rearranged anyhow. Using a mac and safari as well by the way.

[Rose Humphrey]

@girlie Hi robin, that is what I would expect to happen, but as you can see, although I entered it as “St John the Baptist” when I press send it re-arranges. As you can see this is my third year, and I don’t remember this being an issue until recently. (lovely pic, as ever!)
@tolito Thanks
@Scrivna - sorry as I have explained it just isn’t working for me.

[Robin]

@daffodill Sorry I couldn't help; sure looks like something specific to you at the moment. Hope Ross can sort it for you.

[Gillian]

@daffodill you've somehow got a comma in there "st, baptist" - get rid of that and it should work

[Rose Humphrey]

OK I have cut and pasted what shows in the edit box

john the font worcestershire jan2013 'near you' claines “st baptist"


note that near you has reverted from “ to ‘ and no comma is visible...


Will delete all & retry

[Rose Humphrey]

I have now re added

font Worcestershire “near you” “St John the Baptist” Claines

and lo it appears as

john, the, font, worcestershire, you”, claines, “st, baptist”, “near

[❀ Lynn]

I have a Mac and use firefox....no trouble using double quotation marks. I don't bother trying to use capitals as it never uses them.

[Robin]

@daffodill Maybe tag @Scrivna in your last message so he can see you're still having problems despite apparently doing the right thing. It's very puzzling.

[Tami Skipper]

I have a Mac and use Safari with no problems.

[Alexis Birkill]

The problem is that you're using (intentionally or otherwise) 'smart quotes', curly quotes which are non-standard and aren't recognised by the site. Might be something to do with this being enabledin Safari, but I'm not an Appler either:

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4513

[Rose Humphrey]

@abirkill You are a genius! :D Thank you! It now works!

@girlie Thanks!
@Scrivna It was a more significant problem, but Alexis Birkill came up with the solution, which you may wish to note!

Thanks to those who didn't treat me like a complete idiot ;)

[Robin]

@daffodill Aha! Thought it had to be something like that but I never thought of the curlies. Couldn't see yours clearly enough to make out the difference. Glad @abirkill has sorted this out. I always make sure I change my preference to straight quotes to avoid this sort of problem on other things. Thanks for letting me know.

[Dixie Goode]

I searched and this old post popped up, but I’ve noticed a problem recently. I type “Jurrasic Quest” and it comes up as “Jurrasic, and as Quest” adding the comma on its own and splitting into two tags.

[Rose Humphrey]

@pandorasecho it was down to which quote signs were used. Trial and error to resolve!

[Dixie Goode]

@daffodill thanks

[Lula Harp]

Thank you to everyone who answered this. I had no idea quotation marks were so particular