Using Tags using-tags
Tags are a quick and easy method of classifying content within a website. Tags may be thought of as keywords or labels that can be attached to a page, an asset, or other content to enable searches to find that content and related content.
- See Administering Tags for information about creating and managing tags, and to which content tags have been applied.
- See Tagging for Developers for information about the tagging framework and including and extending tags in custom applications.
Ten Reasons to Use Tagging ten-reasons-to-use-tagging
- Organizing Content - Tagging makes life easier for authors as they can quickly organize content with little effort.
- Organizing Tags - While tags organize content, hierarchical taxonomies/namespaces organize tags.
- Deeply Organized Tags - With the ability to create tags and sub-tags it becomes possible to express entire taxonomic systems, covering terms, subterms and their relationships. This allows creation of a second (or third) content hierarchy in parallel to the official one.
- Controlled Tagging - Tagging can be controlled by applying permissions to tags and/or namespaces to control tag creation and application.
- Flexible Tagging - Tags have many names and faces: tags, taxonomy terms, categories, labels and many more. They are flexible in their content model and in the way they can be used; for instance, when outlining target demographics, categorizing and rating content or to create a secondary content hierarchy.
- Improved Searching - The default search component in AEM broadly includes created tags and applied tags to which filters can be applied to narrow the results to those that are relevant.
- SEO Enabling - Tags applied as page properties will automatically show up in the metatags of the page making it visible to search engines.
- Simple Sophistication - Tags can simply be created from a word and the touch of a button. Afterwards, a title, description and unlimited labels can be added to provide more semantics to the tag.
- Core Consistency - The tagging system is a core component of AEM and is used by all AEM capabilities to categorize content. Further, the tagging API is available to developers for creating tagging-enabled applications with access to the same taxonomies.
- Combines Structure & Flexibility - AEM is ideal for working with structured information, due to the nesting of pages and paths. It is equally powerful when working with unstructured information, due to the built-in full-text search. Tagging combines the strengths of both structure and flexibility.
When designing the content structure for a site and the metadata schema for assets, consider the lightweight and accessible approach tagging provides.
Applying Tags applying-tags
In the author environment, authors may apply tags by accessing the page properties and entering one or more tags in the Tags/Keywords field.
To apply pre-defined tags, in the Page Properties window use the Tags field and the Select Tags window. The Standard Tags tab is the default namespace, which means there is no namespace-string:
prefixed to the taxonomy.
Publishing Tags publishing-tags
Similar to how you can publish and unpublish pages pages, you can perform the following on tags and namespaces:
Activate activate
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Activate individual tags.
Just as with pages, created tags must be activated before they become available on the publish environment.
Deactivate deactivate
- Deactivate the selected tags.