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    • Feature request: FREETAG plugin

    Posted by MacLeod posts: 43 United States

    I concur with the prevailing sentiment about freetags: they rock! I expect that our users will also agree, and will begin relying on them much more than categories.

    The CATEGORY plugin also rocks. We use it to automate our main index page, for users who want to browse the whole catalog of objects at once, without clicking through the tree on tiki-browse_categories.php. We also use it on our portal pages to include links related to that particular portal theme.

    I can see us using a FREETAG plugin the same way, especially if freetags become the dominant classification method. Are there currently any plans to implement one?

    - ))MacLeod((

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    Posted by MacLeod posts: 43 United States

    And while we're on the subject, a FREETAGORPHAN plugin - similar in function to CATORPHAN - would be nice, too. :-)

    - ))MacLeod((

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    Posted by Darren posts: 289 United States
    This might be a stupid question but what would the Freetag plugin do exactly? The most useful/typical thing one would want from freetags right now would be a "tag cloud" and that exists already.
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    Posted by MacLeod posts: 43 United States
    Darren wrote:
    This might be a stupid question but what would the Freetag plugin do exactly? The most useful/typical thing one would want from freetags right now would be a "tag cloud" and that exists already.


    It's not a stupid question; ricks99 took some convincing initially, too. :-)

    You can ask the same question about the CATEGORY plugin: what do you really need it for, since you can browse and search the structure and the categorized objects in tiki-browse_categories.php ?

    The answer is that sometimes you want to display a category sub-set within a wiki page. For example, we have an Engineering portal page, and part of the page uses the CATEGORY plugin to display wiki pages and forums that are in any of the half-dozen or so engineering categories.

    One of our engineers has started using the wiki to run one of her projects, and wants to display an automated list of all related objects on her main project page. However, we're not going to create sub-categories for every new project, especially now that we have tags. A FREETAG plugin would allow her to show all items tagged "Project XYZ", or perhaps an intersection of tags ("Product Line X" * "Accessory Y" * "Option Z").

    - ))MacLeod((

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