wiki:TagsPlugin

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A Tagging System for Trac

The TagsPlugin implements both a generic tagging engine, and frontends for the Wiki and ticket systems. An extra text entry box is added to the Wiki edit page for tagging Wiki pages, and ticket fields (you can configure which ones) are treated as tags for the ticket system.

The TagsPlugin was created by Muness Alrubaie, with contributions from Alec Thomas.

Obtaining and Installing

Follow the installation instructions?.

What are tags?

Tags are like hierarchically organized wiki entries, however with them you can categorize a wiki entry under multiple tags and not just under one hierarchy. You can then search for wiki entries categorized under a tag or a collection of tags. In other words, tags provide a faceted classification system for the Trac wiki.

As an added bonus, tags are linked to the wiki entry of the same name, allowing you to describe them explicitly under the wiki entry of the same name. This allows for a flexible means for establishing the context of wiki entries. Besides this, tags also make it incredibly easy to create todo? lists or indexes?.

Tags don't have to be predefined. As long as there are wiki entries categorized under a tag, it'll be automatically created.

Tags are similar to labels in gmail, tags in the social bookmark manager del.icio.us and Flickr. They are substantially different from Wikipedia categories, because tags are associated with wiki entries of the same name, whereas WikiMedia Categories are just indexes.

This implementation of wiki tagging is specific to Trac. To stay consistent with the way Trac names wiki entries, tags are case sensitive.

Also see the idea's background? and improvements? being implemented/considered.

Don't forget to check out the examples? of tags in action. The excellent Trac Hacks makes extensive use of tagging and is a good example of their use. Also, see http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac/2006-April/007646.html for an example of how Alec uses ListTagged to query tickets.

How do I apply tags?

To create a tag, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the wiki entry you want to tag.
  2. Click on Edit This Page
  3. Under Change information, Tag under:, enter the tags you want to categorize the entry under. Separate the tags by commas. Note that white spaces are currently not supported and will be replaced by commas.
  4. Click Save changes.

The wiki entry you edit is now categorized under the tags you specified.

How do I remove a tag from a wiki entry?

To remove a tag from a wiki entry

  1. Go to the wiki entry you want to untag.
  2. Click on Edit This Page
  3. Under Change information, Tag under:, remove the tag from the list.
  4. Click Save changes.

Using the tags

Querying is implemented through the /tags uri handler, the tag:<tag> syntax or Trac Macros as follows

/tags handler

Going to /tags under your project will show a list of all tags in the wiki. /tags/<tag> will show all the objects tagged <tag>. e.g. http://muness.textdriven.com/trac/tags/Java,Examples. This accepts all the parameters that the ListTagged macro does. e.g. http://muness.textdriven.com/trac/tags/Java,Examples?operation=union&amp;amp;showheadings=true.

tagged:<tag> Usage

Using tagged:<tag> will link to the wiki <tag>. If that doesn't exist, it will instead link to a listing of all the objects tagged <tag>.

e.g. tagged:todo? or tagged:Java,Examples? . This syntax accepts all the options that the ListTagged macro does. e.g. tagged:Java,Examples?operation=union? .

Tag expressions

Both the ListTagged macro and the /tags handler use a basic expression language for filtering tagged objects.

Operators supported by the language are:

OperatorFunction
+ or ,Logical and
-Logical and not
unary -Not
|Logical or

Sub-expressions can be grouped inside parentheses (, ).

Tags can be quoted with single ' or double '' quotes, in case they contain characters that are operators.

Examples

Intersection of Java and Examples tags:

tagged:Java+Examples?

Union of Java and Examples tags:

tagged:Java|Examples?

Objects tagged Java or Python, and Examples

tagged:(Java|Python)+Examples

Macro Usage

ListTagged

[[ListTagged]]

List tagged resources.

Usage:

[[ListTagged(<query>[,exclude=<list>],[[format=<format>],cols=<columns>])]]
format
result list presentation; supported values:
compact comma-separated inline list of "linked-description"
oldlist (default) " * linked-id description (tags)" list
table table... (see corresponding column option too)
short or other value bulleted list of "linked-description"
cols
columns for 'table' format using a "|"-separated list of column names (order matters); supported columns: realm, id, description, tags
exclude
exclude tagged resources that match a name in the colon-separated list of resource ids, accepts shell-style patterns

See tags documentation for the query syntax.

[[TagCloud]]

Display a tag cloud.

Show a tag cloud for all tags on resources matching query.

Usage:

[[TagCloud(<query>[,caseless_sort=<bool>][,mincount=<n>])]]
caseless_sort
Whether the tag cloud should be sorted case-sensitive.
mincount
Optional integer threshold to hide tags with smaller count.

See tags documentation for the query syntax.

ListTags

TagCloud

[[ListTagged]]

List tagged resources.

Usage:

[[ListTagged(<query>[,exclude=<list>],[[format=<format>],cols=<columns>])]]
format
result list presentation; supported values:
compact comma-separated inline list of "linked-description"
oldlist (default) " * linked-id description (tags)" list
table table... (see corresponding column option too)
short or other value bulleted list of "linked-description"
cols
columns for 'table' format using a "|"-separated list of column names (order matters); supported columns: realm, id, description, tags
exclude
exclude tagged resources that match a name in the colon-separated list of resource ids, accepts shell-style patterns

See tags documentation for the query syntax.

[[TagCloud]]

Display a tag cloud.

Show a tag cloud for all tags on resources matching query.

Usage:

[[TagCloud(<query>[,caseless_sort=<bool>][,mincount=<n>])]]
caseless_sort
Whether the tag cloud should be sorted case-sensitive.
mincount
Optional integer threshold to hide tags with smaller count.

See tags documentation for the query syntax.

Note that the macro argument defaults can be customized site-wide. See the installation instructions? and examples for details.

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