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This page explains how to enable content tagging in a content app so that authors can add tags to content items.
The magnolia-enterprise-pro-demo-webapp and the magnolia-enterprise-pro-demo-bundle for Magnolia 5.6+ contain an example of how to use the Content Tags module. In this page, we show how the Tours app has been modified to enable tagging for tours, and we also provide general instructions and code samples showing how to enable tagging in other apps (Contacts app example).
Make sure your bundle contains the Content tags modules (magnolia-content-tags-core and magnolia-content-tags module-ui).
You can enable content tags in a new content app or in one that already exists. In the examples below, we modify existing apps using decoration. We assume that you are familiar with Magnolia content apps and Definition decoration.
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- Set the property
subAppClasstoinfo.magnolia.contenttags.shortcut.TagShortcutAwareBrowserSubApp. - Add the action
info.magnolia.contenttags.dialog.OpenTagDialogActionDefinitionand make it available for the content items for which you want to enable tags.
If you give the action the nameaddTags, the systmes automatically system automatically provides a translation for the default language (English). If you are using a different name or if you want to change the default translation ("Add tags"), provide an i18n key. - Make sure the views of the Workbench have columns to display the tags: on the view
searchset the propertyimplementationClasstoinfo.magnolia.contenttags.app.contenttool.search.TagSearchPresenter.
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Add a configuration node for the workspace - the workspace used by the content app for the content items to which you add tags - to make sure that:
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. Thi ensures, tha when you delete a tag from the Tags app, the system checks for occurrences of these tags on registered workspaces, it shows notifications about these occurrences and, if you agree, it removes references of the tags on content items in registered workspaces.
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To enable this, add a node to /modules/content-tags-core/config/taggableWorkspaces:
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