So I have this really weird issue,

I can tag/star tasks in tracks, (1.6 on the moment, but I had this issue for a while, also in 1.5), but when searching for tags, either by using the star tab or clicking on a tag I get 0 results.

I did a clean install and then it all seems to work fine, so that rules out a software bug, it should be in the database.

If anybody has some hints/tips on where to look, I would very much appreciate it.

I’m not completely sure what you mean.

After the clean install, does both starring and the star tab work?
Is there corruption left, i.e. old starred actions that you cannot find through the star tab?

Furthermore, is tagging working for you? I mean, can you add a tag to an action and search for it by clicking on a tag that is shown next to an action??

With a clean install (Start with empty database and run rake db:migrate), everything works fine.

With my current install, including loads of tasks, I can create tags, but I cannot search for them, I always get empty results back.

So my best guess on the moment is that something breaks on the select query for searching tags, but I don’t know where to start to debug the issue. ( My RoR Fu isn’t that strong yet )

if you add tags to actions, do they show up besides the action on the home page? IOW, are they stored in the db?

Yes, they do show up next to the task, and I can click on them.
(That’s what I meant when I said I can create them, sorry if that wasn’t clear)

a very strange case

Are there any error messages in your log after trying to search for a tag?

If you’re comfortable using some sort of sql query tool, you can try to compare the data definition of your newly created db with the data definition of your ‘corrupted’ database. Perhaps you can spot differences .
Also, you can try to compare the way your tags / taggings table is filled with the newly created db. Of course you need to add some actions with tags in the new db. Try to add an action with the same tags as in your corrupted db for better comparison.

Ok, got it fixed now, seems my RoR Foo is better than last attempt

After using “debug” to vind out what the models where saying, I noticed that even thought the items where found, some didn’t show, after that it became clear that the reason why my tags are not showing up is because I’m working from a “hidden” context.

This, to me, looks like a bug, since a context should only be hidden on the front page right?

I fixed this by changing the views/todos/tag.html.erb

Replaced this

with this

on line 9

nice debugging! Could you add a report on dev.rousette.org.uk for this bug?

Sure, I’m clone-ing the git repository as we speak, see if it’s fixed already and if not, create a patch for it.

great idea. I’m wondering though if your suggested fix is the right one. I personally work a lot from the tag view so I can group actions from all projects from the same client together (the client name is a tag). This way I can see my next actions when working for that client.

Your patch mixes hidden todos with active todos.

Perhaps we should add a separate container containing all hidden todos for the tag, like the container for all deferred todos

I need some time to look into that, on the moment I check if there are hidden contexts, and now show them seperatly with a simple

between them.

It’s not pretty, but I will see if I can polish it up tonight.

I noticed this problem too, but I use Tracks 1.6 on Morphexchange.  Is there a way to fix this when you haven’t installed Tracks yourself?

Unfortunately you cannot fix this when you are on Morphexchange, since you cannot change the source of Tracks there. You need to ask them or ask them to upgrade to Tracks 1.7 where this issue is fixed.

We fixed this issue on GTDify.com. Thanks bgrolleman.