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More => Old Versions => Media Center 13 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Peter Engrav on November 29, 2008, 12:15:12 am
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So I'm a fan of the new "checkbox" keyword UI. Except for one thing. I have a number of Podcasts that arrive with 20 keywords or so (semi-random) per episode. I need to clear them all out (they aren't my limited set of keywords). But it's remarkably tedious to erase all those keywords - if you multi-select many tracks and then try to edit the keyword up in the "string" field at the top (where it says "[Various]") you can't.
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It's not universal love:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=49423.msg338370;topicseen#msg338370
Editing is disabled when it shows [Varies], but one solution would be to allow typing (that would change all) in this case. The fear is that it could lead to inadvertant data changes.
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Seems as though perhaps use of keywords is bimodal. Some keywords are "standard" across the collection (Classical, Fiction) (suitable for filtering) and a (short) pick list (both for setting and filtering) is correct. Others are more "tags" in the tag cloud sense where they're a semi-random list of words attached to an item to help enable free-text search. The latter sort are a disaster in a pick list. Maybe there needs to be a global list of "standard keywords" that go in the list but not every keyword is "standard"?