So i’ve stumbled on to a reason as to why in the beginning, and even now (relative beginning) i am struggling with certain aspects of Knime. Primarily in finding the tools i need or working the configurations.
Nomenclature. The naming of tools and config labels is often vaguely indicative or wholesale misleading, not using what is pretty standard vocabulary.
For example. Union = Concatenate or in the BigQuery tool dataset = schema
Any thoughts?
I think you are somewhat correct.
Some nodes like the Union=Concatenate example are not that great 
However I guess now renaming them would be even more confusing to the users who learned which name to search for 
Maybe they could add tags to the nodes, so that the node will at least popup when searching for union etc
*But I think it is not always easy to give a short and discriptive name for functions (or in this case nodes)
Best example would be your naming of this topic as “nomenclature”… as a non native speaker I would never have guessed from the topic name what it is about - which I guess they somehow have to consider as well 
Maybe a solution would be to let users add tags to nodes, which are shared between the community which can then up/down vote the weighting used in the search 
also while beeing on the topic of searching… i also think the search should at least suggest uninstalled nodes as well
E.g. when searching for “regex” it should have a greyed out suggestion for qqilihq-regex nodes… like hey maybe that will also help you
Hi there,
@Gavin_Attard don’t remember having such problems when I was starting. On contrary I remember being surprised how easily I managed to find nodes I was looking for in Node Repository. But guess it is depending on background and what are you used to…
@AnotherFraudUser like your idea regarding nodes tags! And for search with uninstalled nodes included there are search View that make it possible 
Br,
Ivan
@ipazin What search views do you mean?
The only thing that would come to my mind is nodepit/knimehub
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