Classic UI Tagging Console

Last update: March 5, 2025
  • Applies to:
  • Experience Manager 6.5 LTS

CREATED FOR:

  • Admin

This section is for the Classic UI Tagging Console.

NOTE
See Administering Tags for details of the Touch-optimized UI Tagging Console.

To access the Classic UI Tagging console :

Classic console window

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

  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

  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

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

Finding where tags are referenced

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 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

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

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

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.