Using Social Tag Cloud using-social-tag-cloud
Introduction introduction
The Social Tag Cloud component highlights tags applied by community members when posting content. It is a means of identifying trending topics and allowing site visitors to quickly locate tagged content.
For another means of identifying current trends, visit Activity Trends.
This page documents the Social Tag Cloud component dialog settings and describes the user experience.
For detailed information for developers, see Tag Essentials.
See Administering Tags for information about creating and managing tags, and to which content tags have been applied.
Adding a Social Tag Cloud adding-a-social-tag-cloud
To add a Social Tag Cloud component to a page in author mode, use the component browser to locate Communities / Social Tag Cloud and drag it into place on a page where the tag cloud should appear.
For necessary information, visit Communities Components Basics.
When the required client-side libraries are included, this is how the Social Tag Cloud component appears:
Configuring Social Tag Cloud configuring-social-tag-cloud
Select the placed Social Tag Cloud component so you can access and select the Configure icon which opens the edit dialog.
Under the Social Tag Cloud tab, specify which tags to display and, if the tags are active links, the location of the page for search results:
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Social Tags to Display
Identify which UGC tags to display. The pull-down options are:From page and child pagesAll tags
The default is
From page and child pages, where “page” refers to the Page setting below. -
Page
(Required if not
All tags)The path to the UGC for a page. Default is the current page if left blank. -
No links on tags
If checked, the tags are displayed in the tag cloud as plain text. If unchecked, the tags are displayed as active links which search on all content to which that tag is applied. Default is unchecked and requires the Search Result Path to be set.
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Search Result Path
The path to a page on which a
Search Resultcomponent has been placed, configured to reference UGC which includes the UGC path specified by the Page setting.
Change Display of Social Tag Cloud change-display-of-social-tag-cloud
To edit the display of the Social Tag Cloud, enter Design Mode and double-click the placed Social Tag Cloud component to open a dialog with an additional tab.
Using the Social Tag Cloud (Design) tab, specify how tags are displayed. A tag may be a simple tag, a single word in the default namespace, or a hierarchical taxonomy:
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Show full title paths
If checked, shows the titles for the parent tags and namespace for each applied tag.
For example:
- Checked:
Geometrixx Media: Gadgets / Cars - Unchecked:
Cars
There is no difference for a simple tag.
Default is unchecked.
- Checked:
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Show only leaf tags
If checked, shows only applied tags which contain no other tags.
For example, given the TagID of:
Geometrixx Media: Gadgets / CarsThere are three tags which can be applied:
Geometrixx Media (the namespace),Gadgets, andCars- Checked: Only
Carsare displayed, if applied. - Unchecked:
Geometrixx Media,Gadgets, andCarsare display, if applied.
A simple tag is a leaf tag.
Default is unchecked.
- Checked: Only
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Link Template
A template, other than a default, used to display the links in a tag cloud, when links are enabled through the component edit dialog.
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Same size for all tags
If checked, all words in the tag cloud are styled the same. If unchecked, words are styled differently according to their usage. Default is unchecked.
Additional Information additional-information
More information may be found on the Tag Essentials page for developers.
See Tagging User Generated Content (UGC) for information about creating and managing tags.