Please include a version tag : go love yourself UE4

[Everynone]

While annoying, indeed, this is being worked on:

I cannot ask questions

Here are the current Engine version tags: [image] The tagging system doesn’t allow for special characters due to the use of tags within URLs. Spaces get replaced with hyphens, periods get replaced removed, and the previous Engine version tags that moved across to the forums from AnswerHub were often just a series of numbers, i.e., 4262 for UE4 26.2 or 43 for UE4 3.0. The best solution was to format Engine version tags as UE4-VERSION to improve this. The caveat is that expanding this to inclu…

[Roy_Wierer.Seda145]

Recently, I have not been able to find any version tag when trying to ask a question. I click the + button, type 4-26, and nothing shows up. Ridiculous.

[Amanda.Schade]

Are you seeing this in all sections or the forums or particular categories?

[EddieChristian]

I have the same issue on Firefox and Chrome. I can only respond to post already made. There are no Unreal version tags for my login. So I can’t ask a question anywhere in the forum.

[SkyeEden]

Questions created in a category need an Engine version tag and a tag relating to the topic that has a relationship with the category that you are attempting to post in. However, you need to select the topic relationship tag first and then the Engine version tag

If you’re still experiencing issues, a screenshot/video would be helpful for us to reproduce the problem you are facing.

Thanks!

[DesuIsSparta]

I was stumped on this too. The confusion for me stems from the fact that the error feedback is located on the title implying that you need to put the version tag in the title, but the actual version tag to be applied is on that spot on the bottom-right where you tag a thread as a ‘question’ ‘bug-report’ etc.

[Roy_Wierer.Seda145]

On my profile:

1. I browse to the forums in Firefox.
2. I click “New Topic”, “New Question”
3. I type a title.
4. I type a category “c++” and click whatever shows up.
5. I type some content.
6. to the right I see “question” and the + sign. I click it and type “4-26”.
7. It says “no matches found”

Which results in the error message that I should include a tag, while I am never able to post my question.

[SkyeEden]

What happens if you use one of these tags before attempting to add an Engine version tag?

[Roy_Wierer.Seda145]

Thanks, if I add the “Abilities” tag in the tag field I can then add the engine tag.
How confusing, what is the difference between the Categories and the Tag fields now?

[Roy_Wierer.Seda145]

I just can’t explain the forums other than this right now. It works to some point but it could be so much more with the right people on UX and frontend dev

[SkyeEden]

With the forum reorganization, many categories were merged. Though due to the vast amount of use cases and relationships with the categories, it was important we relied more on tags, especially when the AnswerHub migration happened.

The category represents the overarching topic, whereas the tags allow users to be more granular with what their topic relates to. This way also reduces the number of categories and subcategories on the forums.

Each category has a tag group assigned to it, which contains x amount of tags relating to the overarching category. For example, the image below is the tag group set to Programming and Scripting, and the subcategories nested there; Blueprint, AI, C++, UI, Multiplayer & Networking.

Due to how the forum currently operates, there is a clash with the tags. Questions require an Engine version tag, and categories require a tag from their respective tag group- but it currently only prompts for an Engine version tag.

We’re exploring how to do this better from a design perspective to make this more intuitive. One idea is that there are two tag bars, one of which is strictly for the Engine version throughout the forum and the other relating to user-input tags/tags required in a given category.

I hope this helps make sense of the way it currently operates!

Once we’ve done some further tag organization, we plan to create an FAQ of sorts that will outline the tags in a given category tag group

[Roy_Wierer.Seda145]

Thank you for the explanation. If I understand this correctly the tags are used like “keywords” to quickly describe what content a post is about within its selected category.
Regardless of how the backend works, the frontend should be as simple as possible. Users of The way I see it, users of the forum could be presented with the following three steps to set up categorization requirements:

1. Select an engine version.
2. Select a category.
3. Choose content keywords (tags).

I would absolutely avoid making things confusing by adding bars to a single panel or by presenting the user with many options to choose from at once like it does now, which is bad UX.

[eobet]

Hello.

Site Refuses to accept UE5-0 as version tag

As was with 5-0EA (and posts were put in on this in December), I’m unable to post without specifying an invalid tag (e.g., 4-27, 4-26 etc) even though I’m now only working with 5.0.0 P1. Would it be possible to get the forum configuration modified so newer versions of UE are accepted as a Version Tag when posting? As an alternative, if there is one and I’m just missing it, could it be explained how one gets around what seems to be a block on posting with the appropriate tag?

Forum Bug: if you tag your post as "Question" then you're forced to specify a version, but even after you do, the sytem keep asking to specify that tag

As per title – if you tag your post as “Question”, then the system asks you to specify an engine version as a tag. The examples provided specify the format UE-version number (e.g. UE4-27), however those tags can’t be inputted – you can input though 4-27, but even after you do, you can’t post because the system keeps again on asking to specify an engine version in one of your tags.

Cant post a question without version tags - cant select version tags

Just as the title says, I cant submit my question because it wont accept it without a UE version tag, and the search doesn’t find any, even when I try to manually enter UE4-27.

Hopefully the moderators are so busy implementing better Ux on this forum that they haven’t had time to implement a merge feature yet.

[kurylo3d]

heres an idea… do away with this confusing, bloated, system so normal people who use the internet can ask questions on the forum. I have totally bipassed the question part and just post to the conversation part of the forum because i cant make these stupid forums work.

[kurylo3d]

heres an idea… do away with this confusing, bloated, system so normal people who use the internet can ask questions on the forum. I have totally bipassed the question part and just post to the conversation part of the forum because i cant make these stupid forums work.

Not to mention this was way easier back in the day of the answers page being seperate from the forum… There you could create whatever tag you wanted.

I cant even make the edit post button work… I edit the post… but it simply wont save my changes… This forum is a disaster and its more difficult to use then any game engine ever could be.

[Roy_Wierer.Seda145]

@kurylo3d

I edit the post… but it simply wont save my changes…

Happens to me as well

[kurylo3d]

I can’t even re add the question tag if i remove it. I cannot find any engine version tags… i try to type them out manually but it wont add anything…

[ImDataJuggler]

@Site Refuses to accept UE5-0 as version tag

4-27

I still can’t figure this out.

I saw someone say plus sign at bottom right, and there isn’t a plus sign on the bottom right.

I am slightly visually impaired, so this is the worst forum I have ever been on. I have asked questions here before i thought.

My question has nothing to do with any version number, it is why do Marketplace Items have ‘Add to Project’, not ‘Download to my hard drive or library?’ I don’t get purchasing something for 1 project. Sounds like a bad way to download content.

Your forum keeps me from asking any questions.

As for how to make it better? YouTube has very easy tags. Create a text box with a label: Tags. Then when someone types in text, and hits a comma, it becomes a tag.

You guys can program 3D environments, I couldn’t do this if my life depended on it, but tags I can do. You need to hire less smart people for your forums, and leave the smart people to the 3D content.

And while I am ranting, why do you want to load thousands of shaders every time I start the app, if I am only going to use none, seems like just a way to make GPU’s smoke.

Back to the topic at hand, I wish I could post a question here.

[DryreL]

I can’t find the tag

[SkyeEden]

Which area on the forums are you attempting to post this in?