Support for ?start_over + ?tags

asked 2011-05-05 11:20:20 -0500

Benoit
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updated 2011-05-05 13:20:16 -0500

We're trying to let the "user" narrow the scope of the questions displayed by using tags, but in a non-compounding way. We would like the user to be able to craft a URL that has the following behavior:

 questions/?set_tags=tag1   - Displays questions that have tag1.
 questions/?set_tags=tag2   - Displays questions that have tag2.

Note that with the current behavior, after the 2nd URL, we would display questions with tag1 and tag2 only.

Askbot supports tags via the /questions/?tags=tag1,tag2 URL. However, the tags "accumulate".
For example, I can do /questions/?tags=tag1 which displays all the tag1 questions.
After, I do a /questions/?tags=tag2 which will then display tag1 AND tag 2 questions.

I can clear the tags with the /questions/?start_over=true

What we would like is the ability to have a URL that always starts over. What I was thinking is compounding the URL elements:

   questions/?start_over=true?tags=tag1,tag2

That's not supported right now... with ?start_over=true, we clear the filter in all cases and don't apply the tags.

As an alternative, we could have a different URL like ?display_tags=tag1,tag2 which would always start-over. This might make for a nicer URL.