DocumentationAEM 6.5User Guide

Classic UI Tagging Console classic-ui-tagging-console

Last update: Wed Apr 17 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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This section is for the Classic UI Tagging Console.

The Touch-optimized UI Tagging Console is here.

To access the Classic UI Tagging console :

Classic console window

Creating Tags and Namespaces creating-tags-and-namespaces

  1. Depending on the level you are starting from you can create either a tag or a namespace using New:

    If you select Tags you can create a namespace:

    Creating a name space dialog

    If you select a namespace (for example, Demo) you can create a tag within that namespace:

    Creating a tag dialog

  2. In both cases enter

    • Title
      (Required) The display title for the tag. While any character may be entered,
      it is recommended to not use these special characters:

      • colon (:) - namespace delimiter
      • forward slash (/) - sub-tag delimiter

      These characters will not be displayed if entered.

    • Name
      (Required) The node name for the tag.

    • Description
      (Optional) A description for the tag.

    • select Create

Editing Tags editing-tags

  1. In the right-hand pane, select the tag that you want to edit.
  2. Click Edit.
  3. You can modify the Title and the Description.
  4. Click Save to close the dialog.

Deleting Tags deleting-tags

  1. In the right-hand pane, select the tag that you want to delete.

  2. Click Delete.

  3. Click Yes to close the dialog.

    The tag should not be listed anymore.

Activating and Deactivating Tags activating-and-deactivating-tags

  1. In the right-hand pane, select the namespace or tag that you want to activate (publish) or deactivate (unpublish).
  2. Click Activate or Deactivate as required.

List - showing where tags are referenced list-showing-where-tags-are-referenced

List opens a new window showing the paths of all pages using the highlighted tag:

Finding where tags are referenced

Moving Tags moving-tags

To help tags administrators and developers clean up the taxonomy or rename a tag ID, it is possible to move a tag to a new location :

  1. Open the Tagging console.

  2. Select the tag and click Move… in the top tool bar (or in the context menu).

  3. In the Move Tag dialog, define:

    • to, the destination node.
    • Rename to, the new node name.

  4. Click Move.

The Move Tag dialog looks as follows:

Moving a tag

NOTE
Authors should not move tags or rename a tag ID. When necessary, Authors should only change the tag titles.

Merging Tags merging-tags

Merging tags can be used when a taxonomy has duplicates. When tag A is merged into tag B, all the pages tagged with tag A will be tagged with tag B and tag A is no more available to authors.

To merge a tag into another one:

  1. Open the Tagging console.

  2. Select the tag and click Merge… in the top tool bar (or in the context menu).

  3. In the Merge Tag dialog, define:

    • into, the destination node.

  4. Click Merge.

The Merge Tag dialog looks as follows:

Merging a tag

Counting Usage of Tags counting-usage-of-tags

To see how many times a tag is being used:

  1. Open the Tagging console.
  2. Click Count usage in the top tool bar: the column Count displays the result.

Managing Tags in Different Languages managing-tags-in-different-languages

The optional titleproperty of a tag may be translated into multiple languages. Tag titles can then be displayed according to the user language or to the page language.

Defining Tag Titles in Multiple Languages defining-tag-titles-in-multiple-languages

The following procedure shows how to translate the titleof the tag Animals into English, German and French:

  1. Go to the Tagging console.

  2. Edit the tag Animals below Tags > Stock Photography.

  3. Add the translations in the following languages:

    • English: Animals
    • German: Tiere
    • French: Animaux

  4. Save the changes.

The dialog looks as follows:

Editing a tag

The Tagging console uses the user language setting, so for the Animal tag, ‘Animaux’ is displayed for a user who sets the language to French in user properties.

To add a new language to the dialog, see the section Adding a New Language to the Edit Tag Dialog in the Tagging for Developers section.

Displaying Tag Titles in Page Properties in a Specified Language displaying-tag-titles-in-page-properties-in-a-specified-language

By default the tag titlesin the page properties are displayed in the page language. The tag dialog in the page properties has a language field that enables the display of tag titlesin a different language. The following procedure describes how to display the tag titlesin French:

  1. Refer to the previous section to add the French translation to the Animals below Tags > Stock Photography.

  2. Open the page properties of the Products page in the English branch of the Geometrixx site.

  3. Open the Tags/Keywords dialog (by selecting the pull-down menu to the right of the Tags/Keywords display area) and select the French language from the pull-down menu in the bottom right corner.

  4. Scroll using the left-right arrows until able to select the Stock Photography tab

    Select the Animals (Animaux) tag and select outside the dialog to close it and add the tag to the page properties.

    Editing another tag

By default, the Page Properties dialog displays the tag titlesaccording to the page language.

In general, the language of the tag is taken from the page language if the page language is available. When the tag widget is used in other cases (for example, in forms or in dialog boxes), the tag language depends on the context.

NOTE
The tag cloud and the meta keywords in the standard page component use the localized tag titlesbased on the page language, if available.
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