I have been playing around with AnkiHub for a few days now and Iām having ongoing issues with the bulk suggest changes function. It seems to work sporadically, but most of the time, even when Iām doing simple things like removing a particular tag from a selection of cards and then selecting all and clicking > āAnkiHub - bulk suggest notesā and submitting it to be updated without review as Iām the deck owner (have tried all the justification options including updated content, updated tags etc.) it just keeps giving me the error āfailed to submit suggestionsā as shown below:
Itās extremely frustrating as it only seems to work fine if I use AnkiHub on the web and manually remove the unwanted tags from individual cards and then sync with the computer. But every time the error comes up on my computer, I have to āreset local changesā and sync with AnkiHub again because otherwise all my edits are stuck locally and none of my changes are being put through to AnkiHub. It seems to work much more consistently if Iām just making edits to one or two cards. I canāt put my finger on whatās causing the issue.
EDIT: Iāve seemed to establish that it seems to work if I make additions to the cards rather than simply remove tags. Is this consistent with how its coded; that is - removal of tags or content is not considered a āchangeā that will sync with Ankihub?
EDIT #2: The same problem exists when removing stuff from fields; ie. the āMissed Questionsā field from some cards for example that were uploaded with someoneās personal content in the MQ field; when I try and remove that and submit changes AnkiHub rejects it. I suspect this all comes down to suggested changes donāt except ādeletion/removal of contentā and only āaddition of content or change to contentā.
Removal of content is also considered a change so I wonder why it doesnāt work for you. Can you send me a link to the deck? Do you have any protected tags and fields?
Hi there - thanks for replying! Hereās the deck link: 5a1160ef-6f41-4d8c-948b-f72275ef0ff7.
I donāt have any protected tags and Iāve only just enabled the protected fields to be the āMissed Questionsā and āPersonal Notesā however I can still replicate the issue if I for example add some content to any field, submit changes (success) and then remove the content and submit changes (unsuccessful sync with AnkiHub).
The only way Iāve discovered to get around the issue is if I remove the content I want to get rid of and then make some other change or add a period or something to the text field and then sync. It just doesnāt seem to work if the only change is a net loss of content from anything in the card (either tags or in the fields).
I can still replicate the issue if I for example add some content to any field, submit changes (success) and then remove the content and submit changes (unsuccessful sync with AnkiHub).
Can you try syncing with AnkiHub before submitting the suggestion that removes content? (Main Anki window ā AnkiHub ā Sync with AnkiHub)
Here is an explanation:
The way it works is that the add-on stores a copy of the notes in the deck in its own database. When downloading updates from AnkiHub, this database gets updated. When creating a change suggestion, the contents of the note in the Anki database are compared with the contents of the note in the add-ons database and the change suggestion is only sent to AnkiHub when there are any changes.
So when you add content to a note, then remove it again and try to submit a change suggestion, the notes contents are the same as in the beginning and the add-on does not know yet that the note was updated on AnkiHub. After syncing it knows about it and you can create a suggestion that removes the content again.
Do you think that this could explain the problems you experienced?
Ahh yes I see - my problem was I wasnāt manually syncing with AnkiHub every time before I tried submitted the suggestions. I feel very silly now. Thanks for all your help!
