Tagging, Contextual Search, and Update sets

[Uncle Rob]

I just realized that tags don't get captured in update sets.   This is extraordinarily bad (at least for us) since Catalog Items are developed with a huge focus on being found by keywords (which we're using tags to do).

So as an experiment I exported / imported tags (labels) and label entries from Dev into QA.   Didn't work as cleanly as I'd like as now the tag counts are way off (usually double the amount of actual tags on the items).

[Uncle Rob]

After further investigation the tag counts are due to importing the label_entries and labels resulting in tags with the same name.   So that's my bad.

Lesson learned:   importing labels / label entires between instances = very bad idea.

Its still frustrating that we can only tag Catalog Items on Prod.... unless we want to do the work twice between instances.

[tim_harris]

Did you try the "Force to Update Set" ui action to manually add the records to the update set?

[Uncle Rob]

Force to Update Set is a custom solution, not OOB, and we haven't implemented it here yet, though I've thought about it.

That would do in a pinch, but its still a lot of work

Develop catalog item

While tagging{

  go to tag record
  force to update set
  go to tag entry record
  force to update set
}

[tim_harris]

Wow... I never realized it was custom. It has always been on our instances and I just assumed it was out of box. Good to know.