Tagging

From Social Squared version 4.0.0.1, you can tag your topics and posts. Tagging by default is deactivated. Tagging can be activated at the Social Squared database level by using the Forum Settings page, and then selecting true from the Show Tags drop down list. Here you can also choose between the Social Squared Tag Store, the Enterprise Term Store and the Local Term Store. Using the Enterprise Term Store allows the administration to control which tags are created and that the users are able to use.

You can also type a character that you want to be used as the Tag Delimiter character. By default the delimiter is a space, that is, any word separated by a space is treated as a different tag, for example,

Football Rugby Liverpool-FC

The tags for the topic would be Football, Rugby and Liverpool-FC. When you set the Tag Delimiter character is a semi-colon, to enter the same tags you would have to type:

Football;Rubgy;Liverpool FC

For tags that consist of more than one word, such as “Lightning Conductor”, using the space as a delimiter would not work, as it would treat each word as a separate tag. In this scenario, it would be better to use the semi-colon as a delimeter. For example,

Lightning Conductor;

Once users have begun tagging topics and posts you can add the Social Squared Forums Tagging Web Part to your SharePoint® page:

The more a tag has been used, the larger the font size. You can quickly find all posts that reference a tag by clicking the tag. You will be taken to a forum view that shows all the topics that have posts that have been ‘tagged’ with the tag.