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Machine tags

colm.mcmullan Pro says:

Hi,

I was wondering if it would be possible to add machine tag support?

By this I just mean that you can tag something in the format "namespace:name=value", currently when I try to do that it seems that it just uses "namespace" as the tag and discards everything from the ':' onwards (even if i put the whole thing in quotes). Is there a reason for this, is it a bug or was it just something that never came up? :)

Since the tagContains filter is already in place, doing machine tag smart queries would be quite a nice feature to unlock.

Thanks,
Colm

Posted at 8:43pm on November 21, 2009

andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:

How would you be planning to use machine tags that the colon would be necessary? You could use namespace.name-value (or any of + - . @ _) at the moment, and still get some value out of that.

Posted 2 years ago

colm.mcmullan Pro says:

I plan to use it via the API so I can add some application specific machine tags in. The : and = characters are for convention, that's how other sites use them, but the same can be achieved with the characters you've mentioned so I'll use these for now.

Out of curiosity, do you think the : and = will be added to the valid characters sometime in the future?

Thanks Andrew!

Posted 2 years ago

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