Moved downloads to a new category and the tags went missing

[Lena]

Hi,

I had a huge number of downloads in one category and decided to create subcategories. After doing so I moved (via batch) the downloads to the different subcategories. All semmed fine. A couple of days later I detected that all downloads were no longer tagged. I "guess" this was caused through moving to a subcategory. Did I do something wrong? Can you recreate this "problem".

It would be good to know... I'm not going to tag 2000+ downloads... I can "live" without the tagging... but I'm angry about the lost work and time.

Nevertheless I love this extension!

Lena

[ColinM]

Hi
Lena
Understand your frustration.  This is a Joomla! problem.  Some time back the Joomla people changed some code to do with tags but forgot about external components that use categories.
For a long time there was 'reluctance' to admit there was a "challenge".  It looked at one time as if Joomla 3.6.5 was going to fix the issue - but it missed -again!!

I will see if I can reproduce
Colin

[Lena]

Hi Colin,

thanks for understanding.

I know jdownloads isn't at fault. From now on I', thinking of using other solutions for tags... custom fields maybe ;-)

[ColinM]

Lena
Arno is working on Joomla Custom fields - will advise more later
Colin