[I'M BEGGING YOU] Library management.

Please, please PLEASE , add any kind of categorisation to the library management console. I can't even imagine how to deal with hundreds of thousends of tiles and tokens bought in your marketplace - target you should aim to - using current solution. Even package name would do - like "the greatest underground zombie dungeon set #2918" and everything in it separated from the other packages. Please?

Yes, I am.

At the bare minimum, they should come pre-tagged, since y'all seem to like tags so much!

Exactly! If you (roll20 team) hate concept of folders so much, tag new elements automatically after purchase, with package name, author etc. I bought all of these sets recently - can you imagine amount of time and effort I would have to invest to manually tag all the hundreds of elements? At least with one tag each, and can't do more than 30 elements in one run, due to hard-coded restriction...

Riley, that is both awesome, and also confusing and non-intuitive for many of us. First of all, what you just explained, is completely UNexplained on the Marketplace & your Art tab & your Purchases tab. Many of us don't know about what you just explained. Even people who have used this site for years & read most forum posts, wiki, and Marketplace text (me). There's nothing evident to remind you, hey, you bought that set of tokens and the listing of tags you got from that is: Mountains, Rivers, Alphabet. Example or Case in Point. Here is a simple set I've purchased, <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/78/blue-" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/78/blue-</a>... Always I have thought this set "has no tags" (I was wrong). On my Purchases page where it says Edit Tags, it shows no tags for each item. Just says Your Tags: Edit Tags and it's blank. Therefore they appear untagged. Many times I searched for "Letter" or "Letter X" or "Alphabet" or "Blue" to find these tokens. They would never come up. I always was bothered that Marketplace didn't tag these as Alphabet. To this day if you search for Alphabet in the Marketplace Search, it returns NO results, yet if you look on the Marketplace Set that I linked, it's obviously alphabet tokens, numerical tokens, letter tokens, blue tokens. Now since Riley explained they should be tagged ("marketplace items are tagged"), I return to the Marketplace and look on the file names. Weird! They have non-intuitive file names. They aren't tagged or named or labeled with "letter" or "alphabet" or "number" or "numerical" or "blue". Instead they are named like "Round" or "hex" or "square". These are tag-terms that I would have never thought to search for. Furthermore these are Tag names that I didn't even know I had. Now I go to my Art Library and test it. Sure enough, Riley is correct. If I search for "Round X", now I can get the token I wanted. But I have suffered this issue for 6 months of not being able to find that token in Tags, and not wanting to manually Tag 100's of tokens myself going 30 at a time. My existing method to find the Alphabet Token I wanted was: Open My Purchases Tab and scroll through page after page of Tokens trying to visually find the one I wanted. Done this hundreds of times, each time costing 2-3 minutes = 100's of minutes spent trying to find these tokens I bought. When all along, if I had only know the Marketplace items were already tagged as "Round-X" then I could have found them in the Art tab with that search, but who thinks of "Round X" when you are looking for Alphabet X or Letter X or Blue X?? Consequently I have avoided buying more sets from the Marketplace because of the inconvenience of re-finding them after purchase. It has been easier to search Art and find a free token at the time of need, than to buy a token &gt; tag it with every relevant word I can think of now or might think of searching in the future &gt; find it later. The Purchases tab itself is crazy to scroll through page-after-page and would be completely insane if I purchased more sets from the Marketplace. Thanks again for your answer. My advice gleaned from Riley, my new tip for finding your old Purchases in your Art Tab: First go back to the Marketplace. Re-find the set that you purchased. Look at the file names on the items. Those file names ARE TAGS which can be found in the Art Tab search box. If this is not the best way to re-discover the actual pre-existing tags of your forgotten Marketplace purchases, then someone please correct me with a better way. P.S. To the Marketplace Director or Author Stewart Werley of the "Blue Tokens" set: Please go back and tag these products as Alphabet, Letter, Number, Numerical, Blue. You will sell more copies if you do this, because the Set will start to come up in the Marketplace Search when people search for Letter Tokens. Right now NOTHING comes in the Marketplace if you search for Letters, Alphabet, and so on. And you will save Users time, that we won't need to Edit these obvious tags onto our purchases.

Thank you Mr Gold, with your final statement, I rest my case. ;) Dev – if someone says that he is reluctant to buy new stuff from you, because it is very hard to use it later that should be nothing but red flags, alarm sounds and flares for you. I knew about “global tags” on products, but because of many things mentioned in many posts before, tagging alone as organization system doesn’t work. Tags you don’t know are equally good as no tags at all. We desperately need an interactive list of all tags used by us (and general, prepopulated ones), preferably with ability to nest tags - as you can do in Google Apps. Other thing is, when you want to use tiles to build custom map, you would want to have all potentially adjacent elements together, in form of some kind of tray, to just pick one after another from, drag and drop to build, let say, road or river. I was trying to use “your purchases” as kind of tray like that, but that just killed me. Let alone need of endless scrolling and searching (visually) for matching element, if you accidently close the floating window, you have to start over again.

Because I want to be a little more constructive in the debate about UI enhancement, I got another proposition for you guys. What would you say about a concept of dynamic “resource trays”? I imagine something like current “rollable tables”, where you could create a tray with name and set of tags. Then ALL elements with designated tags would appear in this tray, regardless of the type of object – meaning, all tokens, characters, you know, everything. Trays would be “collapsible” just like for example character sheets are. Then DM could prepare few trays with all elements (preloaded by tags) needed, let’s say to create a map, and keep them in the main view for easy access. Double-click on tray name would collapse its content and save real estate of the screen. I believe this approach could save a lot of time during campaign as well. Just create a tray with tags: foes, goblins, rats, spiders – keep it on the table and use quickly to create random encounter, just by tossing enemies at your players :) To keep it clear, content in the tray would be kept together by category of elements, so “goblin” tag on a character and on a token would obviously bring both of these elements to the tray, but should be listed separately, under “characters” and “tokens” subsections. Any thoughts?

Your "resource trays" sound almost like "folders." Only everybody knows that folders are verboten here on roll20. I vote +1 for "resource trays!" Lol! Hey, it's worth a try! :D

For global searches its nice to have tags, but really, i want to have folders in a tree structure. i dont have too many assets right now, but its already difficult if i just cant remeber the right tag.

Quintus said: Your "resource trays" sound almost like "folders." I am very well aware of that, just trying to invent new trick :) Trays utilize two existing elements of the system, which means it shouldn’t be too difficult to develop. I am not even saying that you could drop asset into a tray, let them be “read only”, this would be progress anyway.

The hell? Those names don't show up as tags and this is first I've heard that too. I've stopped buying stuff from the marketplace because organizing it such a headache.