Do these two features exist in any form?

LKD

Before I begin dusting off my PHP knowledge, I prefer to avoid repeating work already done. So, here's two features I need to have on my forum site relating to creating a new discussion/question:

1) Title-oriented search: This feature is the same thing you see in StackOverflow. Somebody enters a title when starting a new discussion and they are shown a list of discussion hits that are likely to match. A very nice "Avoid asking a FAQ" feature

2) The ability to create a list of "Suggested tags" based on a Category. Let me expand on this: A website about wheeled vehicles has three categories - Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles. When a person selects a category, they're presented with a list of common tags used for that category (so, motorcycles would have checkboxes for the list: Honda, Harley, Kawasaki, 2-Cylinder, 4-cylinder, Trike, tuning, repair, insurance, etc.). The list of suggested tags could be controlled by an administrator or by showing a list of the most-popular tags in that category. This would help reduce confusion by posters about commonly-used tags for a new question and would help reduce subtle tag proliferation. You could still add tags as normal, but this would appear between the body and the free-form tag area.

Anything like this?

Tim

We don't have this. Neither would be impossible with plugins though.

luc

I don't remember seeing anything like this.

hyphy

No sir, nothing like this currently. You should request access to the Developers category on here if you plan on diving into developing these items. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress!

LKD

...You should request access to the Developers category on here if you plan on diving into developing these items

And, um, how does one do that?

hyphy

@Tim @Mark @Lincoln @somebody!

LKD

ok, so I spent yesterday looking at the Vanilla layout and what's needed to be done, at least for the tag-suggestion part. if I have additional questions, I'll fire them up in the developers category.

Tim

Good plan, I'm anxious to see what you come up with!

ricardodepaula

very useful suggestion: Title-oriented search. Vanilla needs it!