Description

A tag (or ‘Label’) is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as a page, database record or a file).

Basic Flows

Tagging a singel item

Clicking the actions icon, then clicking the tag name will apply the tag and close the popover.

Assigning one or more tags at once

If the tags list is nested, checking that checkbox once, will select all the list tags, checking the checkbox once again will unselect all the list tags.

Types

The system will come with a set of out of the box default tags (Top-down taxonomies), In addition you can enable users to create new tags (Bottom-up taxonomies).

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Usage & Behaviour

General guidelines

The tags selector appears within a popover (missing from popup types)
Tags may be added to an entire page content or to a particular piece of information within a page such as tables records, list item and more.
You may enable users to manage tags and create new tags (Bottom-up taxonomies) or not.
You may set the selector tags list as nested under ‘All’ item or leave it as a flat list.
Tagging system:
- Tags may be personal (per each user) or shared within an organisation.
Tags should be used when
- You want to let the user categorised an item and make it easier to find it.
- The content on is possibly mapped into one or multiple categories.
- You want to let users organize their contributed data themselves.User conducts “item/s triage” to determine and mark: Relevancy, Grouping, Importance, Categorisation, Affiliation, Reporting.

Structure

The pattern is composed of:
- Add tags action
- Tags chips
- Tags selector
  - Search field
  - Nested / flat checkbox list
  - Actions
    - ‘Apply’ button
    - Manage tags (Optional)
    - Create new tag (Optional)

Placement and Positioning

Tags chips may be placed within detail panes, table cells and cards.
It’s recommended to spread out the tags chips as much as possible, in order to present out-front the different classifications.
In case the tags space is limited, several bags will be merged together:

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Empty state
Tags are spread out tags
Last tags are merges
All tags are merges

Internal Logic

Assigned tags chips as well as selector checkbox list will be sorted alphabetic

States

Tags Chips

Tags selector

Default state
- ‘Apply’ button is disabused
- ‘Create New’ and manage tags are enabled
Upon one (or more) tag selection / deselection
- ‘Apply’ button will be enabled
- ‘Create New’ and manage tags are in disabused .

Search

Typing in the search field will activate a live search
By default the ‘Search’ field is in focus.
Once user starts typing a search term, the action will on the bottom of the dialog box will change, to quickly create a new tag of the entered input.

Interaction

Clicking (any) tag text or Add tags action button will open the tags selector dialog box
Hovering (any) tag chip changes the frame the frame to blue
- Hovering regular tag shows the remove icon ( X )
- Hovering regular tag text (left side) will change the text area background to dark gray.
- Hovering the remove icon (right side) will change icon ( X ) background to dark gray.
Clicking the remove icon ( X ) will remove the tag

Best practices

Wherever assigning tags is implemented it is vital to enable user also to filter by these tags.

Filtering by tags

User will be abule to

Managing tags (Optional capability)

Creating (defining) and managing bottom-up taxonomies tags, may be included or not in the tagging feature.
- Creating and managing bottom-up taxonomies tags may be an autorotation granted by rule.

Creating a new tag

By default the field is in focus, user will add his new tag and click ‘Create’.
The popup will close, add the new tag will already be assigned to entity.

Managing tags

Tags appear in a table, with Tag name, Indication of the tag is enabled or not, count of tagged items and actions.
User can Enable (enable to tag with) each tag (System and custom)