<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>some days ago I've posted a question concerning hierarchical tags in Digikam at stackexchange: <br><a href="https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/108739/inconsistent-behavior-when-adding-new-hierarchical-tags-in-digikam">https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/108739/inconsistent-behavior-when-adding-new-hierarchical-tags-in-digikam</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>One comment suggested that I could try to post this in the mailing list as he suspected this to be a bug. </div><div>Here's the text of the original questions for completeness:</div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Whenever I create a <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit">new</em> hierarchical tag in <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:pre-wrap">Digikam</code> (right-mouse click on image -> Assign Tag -> Add New Tag) then all hierarchy levels are applied to the image. For instance, if I have the hierarchy <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:pre-wrap">Tag 1 / Tag 2</code> and add a <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit">new</em> tag <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:pre-wrap">Tag 1 / Tag 2 / Tag 3</code> to an image, then all tags <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:pre-wrap">Tag 1 / Tag 2 / Tag 3</code> are applied to the image.<br>In contrast, when I add an <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit">existing</em> hierarchical tag to an image, then only the bottom level is applied. Picking the example from above up, when I add <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:pre-wrap">Tag 3</code> to an existing image, then <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit">only</em> <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:pre-wrap">Tag 3</code> is applied but not <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);wh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