Publish tags to Brand Portal

Learn how to publish tags from Experience Manager Assets to Brand Portal.

Tags are useful in organizing assets and enhance the searchability of assets to which they are associated. Tags can be thought of as keywords or labels (metadata) that are attached with assets, and allow assets to be quickly found as the result of a search. To know how to assign tags to assets in Experience Manager Assets, refer use tags to organize assets.

Tags (associated with assets and collections in AEM) are auto-published to Brand Portal when the assets (and collections) with associated tags are published to Brand Portal. The published tags are helpful in enabling the searches to find the associated assets.

NOTE

It is, however, recommended to exclusively publish tags to Brand Portal before publishing the assets (and collections) with which the tags are associated. This ensures faster publishing of the assets (and collections) to Brand Portal.

Manage tags

You can use the pre-existing tags to attach to an asset or create new tags from AEM Tags console (Tools | Tagging | AEM Tags). In both the scenarios you must first publish the tags to Brand Portal and then associate them with appropriate assets.

To create tags on AEM, publish the tags on Brand Portal, and associate the tags with appropriate assets (or collections), follow these steps:

  1. Create Tags
    Sign in to AEM Author instance with administrative privileges, and access AEM Tags console from global navigation:

    1. Select Tools

    2. Select General

    3. Select Tagging

  2. Select Create and then select Create Tag option.

  3. Specify:

    • Title
      (required) A display title for the tag.
    • Name
      (required) A name for the tag. If not specified, a valid node name is created from the Title. See TagID.
    • Description
      (optional) A description of the tag.
    • Tag Path
      JCR path of the tag.

  4. Select Submit to create the tag.

    Once you have created a tag on AEM instance, the tag will be available to be attached to an asset (using Properties section or Manage Tags section of that asset).

  5. Publish the tag to Brand Portal.

    Go to AEM Tags console (Tools | Tagging | AEM Tags), select the desired tag and Publish to Brand Portal.

  6. Attach the tag to an asset (or collection).

    Select an asset (or collection), and attach the desired tag using Properties section or Manage Tags section of that asset. To know more about how to assign tags to assets in AEM Assets, refer use tags to organize assets.

  7. Publish assets (or collections) to Brand Portal.
    When you publish an asset (or collection) to Brand Portal, the attached tag is also available on Brand Portal.

    To see the attached tag on the respective asset (or collection) in Brand Portal, log in to Brand Portal and select the asset, under Properties section you will see the attached Tag.

Search Promote

AEM Assets Brand Portal allows you to make specific assets come as the top results for searches based on a keyword tag.

To elevate an asset for a search keyword, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Properties page of an asset on AEM author instance.

  2. Go to Advanced tab.

  3. In Search Promote within Elevate for search keywords section, select Add to add the search keywords or tags.

  4. Save the changes.

  5. Publish the asset to Brand Portal.

  6. Log in to Brand Portal. View Advanced tab in Properties section of the asset.
    Note that the Search Promote keyword is also visible in the Properties of that asset.

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