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Bring tagging to life #868
Description
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I think the tagging is an great feature, but unless you know the tags used it is hard to search for them. I'd me nice to have a tag page that somehow bring the tagging to life for the users - so they can quick see what is in the system. Combine tagging with other attributes as recently updated/create or recent comments could be a pretty powerful view to better understand what is doing on in the application from a documentation standpoint.
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LazyLama commentedon Jun 4, 2018
Maybe you could add tagging to the search results. I have attached a mock up of what it could look like. I'm not a programmer, so I have no idea if this is even doable.
mendiromania commentedon Jun 6, 2018
The search system really needs a revamp. I'll probably do it if it's not done by next month.
ssddanbrown commentedon Jun 9, 2018
Hi @dtw-chriss, Thanks for the suggestion. The title of this issue is fairly generic so it would be good if we could define some actionable points to achieve this.
Thanks @LazyLama for the mock-up. I think this is a good idea and is technically achievable.
Action Points (Draft)
@dtw-chriss Does that sound like it would achieve what you're looking for? Let me know and I'll update the issue title and details.
@mendiromania It probably won't but you never know. I like to set a calm pace for this project 😄. Be sure to read the pull request details before starting any work. I'd say a 'revamp' is large in scope.
aljawaid commentedon Aug 21, 2018
This would be excellent.
tgrosinger commentedon Oct 19, 2018
It looks like tags can have values when creating them, however I have not found a way to search for a tag=value. Am I doing it wrong, or is this not possible today?
If it's not possible, that would be a great thing to keep in mind when improving tags in search.
ssddanbrown commentedon Oct 19, 2018
Hi @tgrosinger,
After applying a tag, you can click on the label to search for tagged items with that label or you can click on the tag value (Right, lighter, side of it) to search on both the label and value.
Alternatively you can search using square brackets in the search bar, For example:
[Category=Guide]will search for content with a tag label ofCategorythat has a tag value ofGuide. You can actually get quite complex with this and search using different operators such as[Category!=Guide]or[Owners>5].More details here.
tgrosinger commentedon Oct 20, 2018
@ssddanbrown that was very helpful, thank you!
ssddanbrown commentedon Nov 23, 2021
Just coming back across this.
A tag overview was added as of the last release: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/bookstack-release-v21-11/
Upon this, tags were added to search results in an earlier release, and v21.11 enhanced this further with highlighting.
Since this covers both of the discussed action points above I'll close this off. Thanks all for you input 3 years ago 😄