>> (The opposite thing isn't possible, as far as I know -- changing the >> keyword on an icon, say from "scifi" to "science fiction", and having >> old entries still show the icon. That is, I don't think you can >> globally change all entries and comments that use keyword "A" to now >> use keyword "B", so if you want old entries to keep showing the icon, >> you have to add the keyword as an additional keyword of the icon >> rather than replacing the old keyword.)
http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53 Userpic keyword renaming The plan there is for the default behavior to remain the same, but for existing userpics you'd have the option of keeping the old entries showing the same icon, but with the new keyword. The implementation is a little bit hairy, though, because of the way the LJ code stores entry/keyword associations. You basically have to change that, or do a potentially huge DB update. So it probably won't be available on the beta server for a little while. ...Going back to the original message, though, there is a point there: currently if you upload a new pic using an existing keyword, you end up effectively stealing the old pic's keyword away without any warning. It might be nice (and not too much work) at least to give a notification to the user saying that the keyword has been moved from the old icon to the new one. -allen On Thu, Apr 09, 2009, 06:48, Azure Lunatic <[email protected]> wrote >Correct on both counts; this is existing behavior inherited from LJ. > >--Azz. > >On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Philip Newton <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:14, Jenny Scott-Thompson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> At the moment, uploading a >>> new icon with the same keyword changes the keyword to some random string on >>> the old one. I'd like the new icon to be able to go automatically onto all >>> the old entries with that keyword. >> >> The new icon does go automatically on all the old entries, since the >> entry remembers the keyword you used and not the particular icon. >> >> So if you reassign the keyword to another (existing or just-uploaded) >> icon, then all entries using that keyword will automatically show the >> new icon afterwards. >> >> So your suggestion would only save you deleting the previous icon >> associated with that keyword; the "reassign entries from the old icon >> to the new one" is already in place. >> >> (The opposite thing isn't possible, as far as I know -- changing the >> keyword on an icon, say from "scifi" to "science fiction", and having >> old entries still show the icon. That is, I don't think you can >> globally change all entries and comments that use keyword "A" to now >> use keyword "B", so if you want old entries to keep showing the icon, >> you have to add the keyword as an additional keyword of the icon >> rather than replacing the old keyword.) >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Philip Newton <[email protected]> >_______________________________________________ >dw-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
