Filtering errors


I've noticed a few errors with the filtering in 3.0 Beta 2.

1) When trying to add more than one tag which are not present it states: "Filter has invalid item count for this operator". No error is encountered when selecting for multiple tags, however.

2) When adding a NOT tag operator the same story will be repeated multiple times if there are multiple tags for the story.

Example:

A feed has two current stories: foo and bar. Foo has tags X, Y, and Z and bar has tags A, B, and C. If I specify to filter tags not containing X my feed will consist be: foo, foo, bar, bar, bar.

In other words a story will be listed once for each tag. If a tag is to be excluded then only one copy will be removed. There will be multiple copies of all stories including those that do not contain the tag selected against.

3) An unrelated error is that headlines do not interpret HTML. Considering the number of headlines that will use HTML in one form or another this makes it a bit hard to read.

Great job so far. While the previous version was pretty good, the new version really stands out against the competition.

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>1) When trying to add more than one tag which are not present it states: "Filter has invalid item count for this operator". No error is encountered when selecting for multiple tags, however.

Where exactly this thing happens? Is it while in tag management form where you can add or delete tags connected with some article?

>2) When adding a NOT tag operator the same story will be repeated multiple times if there are multiple tags for the story.

Uhhh... This is tough one. I know exactly what you mean but i do not know if we can change this behaviour real soon.

>3) An unrelated error is that headlines do not interpret HTML. Considering the number of headlines that will use HTML in one form or another this makes it a bit hard to read.

Feeds standard does not allow HTML in article title. I will look at this problem and see what we can. I guess we try to strip HTML from title and show it without HTML formating.

>Great job so far. While the previous version was pretty good, the new version really stands out against the competition.

Thanks, these words are welcome! :)

1) This happens on the "edit

1) This happens on the "edit smart feed" form. The drop-down box to select tags will let you select multiple tags for your filter, but as soon as you are done selecting them and click elsewhere (at least, in my experience as I've been using it with "preview changes" on) you get a pop-up with the quoted error.

3) I agree, it's not part of the standard, but a very large number of sites break standards in this way and most other readers don't have any problem with displaying it correctly. I wouldn't think that reconfiguring things to parse HTML in the headlines would be especially hard. Of course, I know that in my experience whenever programming something new in shouldn't be hard that usually means you'll spend the next six hours trying to get it to work and end up breaking a bunch of unrelated things in the process ;)