Tags input search form field usability

  • Resolved rubberbullets

    (@rubberbullets)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    Recently it looks like the Tags input field in the search form has changed in the way that it renders.

    Previously, I was able to type ahead and add each tag.

    Now, I have to select individual tags from a select field with my mouse.

    We have a lot of tags and the latter way of selecting tags is slow and cumbersome.

    Is there a reason this was changed? Is there a simply way for me to get the previous behaviour back on this form?

    Screenshot: https://cfs-prod-s3-corp.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/temp/video-tag-search-ui.png

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  • Plugin Contributor wpvideogallery

    (@wpvideogallery)

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

    Kindly check our changelog here https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-video-gallery/#developers

    We introduced the searchable tags field using the “jQuery AutoComplete UI” in version 2.5.1. To be honest, I thought it was a great improvement. But, as soon as we made the release, we started receiving complaints from the users that the new UI is hard for their visitors to find the tags. We received 7 such complaints and this made me assume that we had made a mistake and released a quick version (2.5.3) immediately by replacing it with a select UI. But, I understand that it would have been better if we made this an option instead of completely removing that. I have taken note of this now and I promise that we would bring back the feature as an option again.

    Our next version is coming out today. I promise that the version next to this will support this again.

    Thanks for understanding!

    Thread Starter rubberbullets

    (@rubberbullets)

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you, I can totally understand that – it’s a tricky situation based on user feedback!

    I’ll look out for the change! Thanks for the speedy response!

    Steve

    Thread Starter rubberbullets

    (@rubberbullets)

    4 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, I see the tags field has been updated. I just want to check if an issue I am now having with it is related to CSS or something else.

    My search form is displaying TWO types of tags fields.

    I am rending the search form using the following:
    [aiovg_search_form tag="1"]

    Render looks like:
    https://cfs-prod-s3-corp.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/temp/Screenshot+2022-05-06+141304.png

    Temporary fix:
    In my _select2.css:

    .select2-container {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  display: none; /* WAS: display: inline-block */
    Plugin Contributor wpvideogallery

    (@wpvideogallery)

    4 years, 2 months ago

    Probably a CSS conflict. Kindly get me your site address to check this directly and get you a fix accordingly.

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