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Umbraco Custom Section - Tag Manager

I was recently responsible for the development of the www.foursquare.co.nz website, which uses several instances of the Tags Data Type with different Tag Groups being defined.

During the development and testing phases it became apparent that there was the need to be able to manage incorrectly entered and/or redundant tags within the site.

Liking a challenge I identified that a custom tree would provide a nice interface for the management of the data.

So thanks to a Corporate Umbraco TV Subscription and perusing the Umbraco Forums I was able to develop a custom tree that lists all recorded Tags within a site.

The package provides the following functionality:

• Branch / leaf view
  Branches are the tag groups, leaves are the individual tags.
• Delete functionality
  This deletes both the tag entry and any associated links to nodes int he content tree.
• Edit functionality
  The ability to edit the tag to correct typos, etc. Also a listing of tagged nodes is listed - these are hyperlinked to enable direct access to content nodes.

The ability to create new Tags has been deliberately omitted from the package - this is due to the built in functionality of the data type where tags are created and the primary purpose of this package is to provide in interface for maintaining tags.

To download the package please visit the Project Page on the Our Umbraco website.

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