Tag List Widget

The Tag List widget creates and displays a list of tags that have been assigned to pages as a way or organizing and categorizing those pages. The Tag List is an excellent way to create a secondary navigation beyond the navigation widget.  For example, you can tag all of your pages throughout your site that have to do with a certain topic.  The tag list shows that topic, the number of pages associated with that topic, and provides a link to view those pages.  It's like a predefined search to make content easier to find for your web viewers.

Tags are similar to categories, the main difference being that categories are structured and pre-defined by an admin user whereas tags are created dynamically by content creators. See Creating Page Meta-data for instructions on creating tags.  

To create a tag list you must create a page that contains a Results widget. Otherwise, the list will display topics but provide no link to see the associated pages. 

Widget Configuration Properties

Display Format – Choose between a list with line breaks between tags or a comma separated list with no line breaks

Sort - Choose between alphabetic or page count. 

Widget Editor 

The Widget content editor allows you to define the criteria that is used to display the tag list. 

Title Contains - Enter a string which is based on the Page title (browser title) of the content you may want to filter. Note: When the list is rendered the "Display title (link text)" will be shown.

First published on or after - The selected page must have been published to the site on or after this date. Click the calendar icon to open a calendar control. Select a month, day, and year using the calendar control, which appears as follows:

Once you have selected a date, the calendar control automatically closes and the date appears in First Published on or after.

First published before - The selected page must have been published to the site before this date. Follow the instructions for using the calendar control under First published on or after.

Website Location - A tree of your system's Web sites. When you choose a site in the tree, the tree expands below it and displays its first-level sections, which you can expand further. When you highlight a site or section, the query selects pages for the autolist within the hightlighted site or section and the sections below it. If you select the top site node, the query selects pages from all sites. The site (but not the section) selected determines which templates appear in the Template list.

Template - Multi-select list of all templates in the selected site. If you select the Site node, all templates in your system are available. You can select any number of templates. Pages selected for the list can be associated with any of the checked templates.

Results Page - Select the page that will render the list of pages matching the tag when clicked. 

Widget Style Properties

CSS root class – A text box in which you enter the CSS class that you want to apply to the list. Your site designer can provide you with the class name.

CSS page summary class - A text box in which you enter the CSS class that you want to apply to page summaries in the output list. Your site designer can provide you with the class name.