Dynamically load the tags in the "What's important to you?" textbox ?

[udemi]

In "What's important to you?" textbox, I already open a bug here on bitbucket because there's no "All" option, but now I noticed that the tags I inserted don't appear in the list and I think that that listbox should show tags basing on the map position and not all tags inserted by all users in the world

[David Marrs]

There was a specific request that these tags be hardcoded to:the following list:

'Social', 'Economy', 'Education', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Health', 'Foreign Policy', 'Reform'

You may notice that not all of these tags appear in the list: that is because they need to exist in the database first so that we can get an id for them. I have now added an 'All' option as well (doesn't need an id, obviously).

Anyway, now I've explained what it's doing, has anyone done any user testing to see what people expect? Changing the topic tags within the map as it moves sounds reasonable to me, as users should notice it happening, but to have stuff within the drop-down change strikes me as possibly confusing (I dunno, I've not tried it on anyone). I imagine that possibly it should be set to most popular tags across the site (or maybe for the user's specified region if they're logged in) on page load.

Also, please sign your name if logging in to bitbucket as udemi so that I know who I'm talking to.

Thanks,

David

[udemi]

Rob here.

I found that most users did not understand why only a few options were shown. They assumed that we are 'in general' only allowing them to look for , say, economy and health.

Is it possible to have the drop down menu always complete ('Social', 'Economy', 'Education', 'Energy', 'Environment', 'Health', 'Foreign Policy', 'Reform'), even if no issue for a selectable topic is in the region?

Rob

[David Marrs]

Yes, you just need to add at least one issue that uses the missing tag(s) into the beta site (so that the tags which don't currently exist are created in the database) and the tags should then appear in the drop down.

[David Marrs]

Closing issue as design has changed so these topics are now categories added by Udemi rather than users.