Error page when no items found in "Compact List of Tagged Items"

[chmst]

Steps to reproduce the issue

Make a menu entry type "Compact List of Tagged Items".
With a tag where no articles or other items are tagged with.

In frontend, click the link.

Expected result

User friendly Information: no items found

Actual result

404 - tag not found.

From the technical point of view the message is correct. For the user it is not.

JROOT\components\com_tags\src\Model\TagModel.php:313

System information (as much as possible)

Additional comments

#39113

[Hackwar]

I tried this and I can't replicate it on a current 4.3-dev. Can you check this again? The code you mentioned is actually not there to load the content items, but the (list of) tag(s) to use in this menu item. When I tested this, it worked fine. Maybe you had the tag unpublished?

[chmst]

I don't remember but after a new test - yes. The 404 appears when the tag is not published.

[Hackwar]

That would then indeed be the right behavior. We do the same when an article is unpublished in a menu item. Therefor I would close this issue for now.

[chmst]

I will open a new issue. From a users point of view and this message is technically correct but not user friendly and forums are full with questions.