About Tags

kenpoist — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:34:04 GMT

Current revision posted to AKF Site FAQ by kenpoist on 10/6/2008 2:34:04 PM

About Tags

A tag is a keyword or term associated with a post which provides a link to related information. Tags give you flexibility in structuring your Website and help you map information. They also make the information in your Website more accessible to users.

For example, a tag cloud, which is also a Community Server pre-packaged widget, displays in the left or right sidebar of your Web page. The tag cloud contains a list of tags that link to any post within a forum, group, or blog that has tags. The following example shows the Community Server Blogs home page with a tag cloud in the right sidebar.

Community Server ranks tags by the number of posts with which the tags are associated so that the most used tags have the largest font size. In the tag cloud in the example above, the Chameleon, Software Development, Community Server, and Telligent tags display with the largest font and therefore are used with the greatest number of blog posts.

When the user clicks a tag, Community Server displays the list of posts that use the tag. So if the user clicks on the Chameleon tag, Community Server opens a browser page that lists all of the associated posts.