Modules with a dedicated tag
Tags such as views, rules, userpoints, features, quiz, webform, panels, feeds, ... etc are all tags named according to the Drupal module they are about. One could say "Indeed, these tags are about modules with a lot of reported installs, and there are a lot of questions using these tags".
However, there are also tags, also named according to the Drupal module they are about, such as these (the number indicates how many questions have been tagged with them): bean (28), rng (21), devel (21), heartbeat (16), webform-civicrm (14), oembed (13), ical (12), jumpmenu (11), homebox (10), markdown (9), boxes (8), flowplayer (7), d2d (6), aurora (5), storm (4), bakery (3), skinr (2)
Attempt to introduce the Message tag
On Aug 4, 2017, I created a similar message tag (with excerpt and wiki), specific to the Message module. Here is how I documented the tag (the tag wiki):
The Message module is the core of the message stack and enables logging and displaying system events in a number of different use cases. Related modules
The other modules in the message stack are:
- Message Notify, to forward messages when they are generated.
- Message Subscribe, to register to be notified when messages are generated for specific content.
These are the basic components and dependencies of the message stack:
Related tags: notifications logging
Tutorials:
- Log Site Activity with Message and Rules.
- What is Drupal's Message Stack and how do its modules work together?
- What's the purpose of "Replacement tokens" of a Message type?
- How to allow users to manage their own Message Stack messages?
- How to use Rules to notify users about new or updated posts on a Drupal site?
Using an advanced search like 'is:q "message module" -private -popup' returns 45 hits these days. And I had applied this message tag to these 10 questions (all specific to the Message module) so far:
- How to create a basic message - notifications system displaying a real time message counter badge?
- How to use the Message module to log site and user activity?
- How to unflag all messages when a users visits the Message page?
- How to detect the newness of messages created with the Message module?
- Why would single-use (harcoded) tokens not validate in the Message module, when the dynamic version does?
- How to mark a Message as 'viewed' when a user sees it in a View?
- How to create a User Feed using the modules Message and Flag?
- Which user related token(s) can be used to create a Rule for setting up a message type?
- How to show message view containing own and following activity?
- How to show picture of the user who triggered the rule for message activity?
However, on Aug 5, 2017 a mass-rollback was performed for all those questions I had tagged with the message tag. Due to which the tag got automatically deleted again (since it was not used anymore in any question).
Reasons for the Message (stack) tag to exist
The Message module already has a (RC) version for D8, has about 23K reported installs and is used in major distributions, such as Commerce Kickstart, Drupal Commons, ERPAL and Open Atrium.
Over 20
more questions specific to the Message module:
- Message is created but text is empty
- combining messages and content types in views
- How get subscribe to user flag on a node
- Why would single-use (harcoded) tokens not validate in the Message module, when the dynamic version does?
- How to add data to a message type custom field that's inherited by all message instances?
- Sending message notification based on flagged node being linked via entity reference
- How to show only Author Related Messages with Message module?
How to add missing data selector in "Create new entity" rules action?
- Why does the count of the Menu badge not decrease after page is viewed?
- How to make Drupal Commerce tokens available in the Commerce Message module?
- Flag module integration with Message module
- How to use this Message Module with Services Module?
- How to build and embed the output of a Message entity (from the Message module)?
- How do I set the text format used in a message (from the Message module)?
- Tracking users 'advanced' activity
- How to create a view of all recent activity on a site?
- ... (on and on goes the list)
More of the same (questions related to other modules that belong to the message stack) ...
11
more Questions specific to the Message Notify module.3
more Questions specific to the Message Subscribe module.
For all those reasons, please re-create the message tag, or perform an undo of all rollbacks for the questions mentioned above. And if the message tag would seem too confusing, then something like the message-stack tag could be a valid alternative.
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