Tag and rate portal content

Users can tag or rate portal content and view the tags and ratings. Tagging and rating allows users to better organize, categorize, and find portal content. This includes Web Content Manager and custom content. For example, users can tag or rate books in an online bookstore. A default portal installation supports tagging and rating of pages for the Page Builder theme only. Therefore, if you select the Portal theme as the default site theme, the Tag Center might not be displayed as expected.
Portal users can tag or rate portal content. This includes the following types of resources:

• Portal resources, such as pages and portlets

• Web Content Manager resources, such as articles or images

• Custom resources. For example, these can be items in an online store or pictures in a portlet. Administrators can add these custom resources to the portal so that users can tag or rate them.

In general, all content in a portal that can be uniquely identified can be tagged or rated.

Users can apply tags and ratings both publicly and privately for the following purposes:

• Public tagging and rating helps users categorize, evaluate, and find portal content based on tags and ratings by other users.

• Private tagging and rating can help users create their own personal way to categorize, evaluate, and find portal content.

The portal provides two user interfaces for tagging and rating

• The default user interface. It allows users to tag and rate resources, and to view tags and ratings for multiple resources.

• An alternative user interface that works with inline widgets. This shows tags and ratings for individual resources in the context of each resource. By default this user interface is available for blogs and wikis. Administrators can also add this user interface to other types of resources.

In detail, portal users can perform the following tasks:

• Work with tags:

  • Tag portal content. Users can add tags to portal content, for example, apply the tag websphere to a page that provides information about IBM WebSphere products. Users can remove tags that they applied themselves.

  • View tags and related portal content: Users can view the tags that have been applied to individual portal resources, for example by invoking the default tag and rating widgets. Users can also work with aggregated sets of selected tags:

    • Users can view tags applied to a set of resources by using a tag cloud. The tag cloud lists the tags in alphabetical order. Different font sizes indicate how often the tags have been applied. Depending on how the administrator has configured the tag cloud, the list can be portal wide or limited to particular items, for example, portal pages, or books available on the page where the user clicked the tag.

    • The tag cloud supports different views: users can switch between these views. For example, they can view all tags, only tags that they themselves applied, their own private tags, or the tags that were added most recently.

    • Users can switch between different display modes. For example, they can have the tags displayed in a cloud as described above, or in a simple list

    • Users can use the tags displayed in the tag cloud to search for content. When a user clicks a tag, the portal shows a list of resources that have that tag applied. Clicking such a resource redirects the user to that resource itself. Users can also click multiple tags; in this case the list shows only resources that have all selected tags applied.

    • When users work with the list of resources, they can have the list sorted by different criteria, for example, title, date, rating. The result list portlet also supports two different view modes: a summary and a detail view.

• Work with ratings:

  • Rate portal content:

    • Users can apply ratings to individual resources to show how much they "like" them. For example, a user can give a good book a rating of 4.

    • Users can change or remove ratings that they applied themselves. For example, a user can update the previous rating 4 to a 5.

  • View the ratings that they or other users have applied to portal content.

Administrators can perform the following tasks:

• All tasks that portal users can perform as listed above.

• Add content that users can tag or rate, for example, books in a bookstore.

• Assign users the access rights for tagging or rating content.

• Configure the tag clouds. By default, a tag cloud shows all tags that have been applied to portal wide resources. Administrators can add tag clouds to portal pages or themes and configure them as required. For example, they can limit a tag cloud to display only tags that have been assigned to resources of a certain category, such as portlets. When users click a tag from that tag cloud, the result list shows only resources, in this case portlets.

• Move tags to a different portal system, for example, for staging or during migration.

• Obtain basic statistics about tagging and rating. For example, you can obtain the tags and tag counts for a specific portal page, or all tags that a specific user has applied. You can write queries for more detailed statistics, or create a user interface to visualize them.

Developers can perform the following tasks:

• Extend the tagging and rating capabilities of the portal by writing a custom user interface that uses the Java Model API or the REST API.

• Write queries to obtain statistics about tagging and rating, and write a user interface to visualize these statistics.

• Enable or disable filters, for example to prevent users from using unwanted words as tags. By default the portal provides a blacklist and a whitelist filter.

Depending on the portal and user groups, administrators or developers might consider creating user documentation for tagging and rating to their portal users.

Parent

Product overview
Search for tagged content
Extending tagging and rating by using service APIs
Tagging and rating
How tagging and rating works in the portal
The tagging and rating user interface
Configuration reference
Allow own custom content to be tagged and rated
Tag and rate for static pages
Security for tagging and rating
Hints and tips for tagging and rating
Use xmlaccess.sh to administer tags and ratings
CP Configuration Service for tagging and rating

 

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