A description of using Forum Topic Tagging and how it is integrated in Sueetie's Global Tagging and Search architecture
Tags Everywhere! Forum Topic Tagging
Everyone loves Sueetie's Forum application YetAnotherForum.NET. Yet the most common question I get about YetAnotherForum.NET is, "when is YetAnotherForum.NET going to support tagging?" Sueetie Community Users want forum tags! So do I. Well, the wait is over, as Forum Tagging will be available in Sueetie v1.4 to be released soon.
Tagging by Topic (not Message)
Sueetie Forum Tags are assigned by YetAnotherForum.NET TOPIC, not individual message. This reduces redundancy, gives greater accuracy to weighting of tag use and produces cleaner search results. Sueetie Forum Topic Tagging uses the Sueetie Framework Global Tag Control which is displayed at the start of each forum topic thread. Forum Topic Tagging is
collaborative. That means all authors in a topic's discussion thread have the ability to edit that topic's tags. Here's a screenshot of the Forum Topic Tag Control for an administrator or anyone who posted a message in the topic's thread.
Because the Sueetie Tag Control is used, Tag Suggestion is fully supported as well as immediate Tag Updates through the Sueetie WCF Tag Processing Service.
Rather than including a tag editor in each message, the author is reminded that he or she can add tags to the topic at any time after creating the message.
The instructions are:
Forum tags are assigned by topic. After entering your message you can add tags at any time using the tag editor located at the start of the discussion thread.Retrieving Forum Content by Tags
Because Forum Topic Tagging is fully integrated with Sueetie's Global Tagging and Search Architecture, clicking on the tag will retrieve all site content with that tag.
Search Sidebar: What is Retrieved in Forum Tag Searching
Some of you may be asking, "if forum content is tagged by TOPIC, then how is it that a Forum MESSAGE is retrieved on a Sueetie Search?" The answer is that when the search index is updated, tags for the forum topic are assigned to the Lead Topic Message, the message which starts the topic. (In YetAnotherForum.NET parlance, that's the message in yaf_message with the topicID and position 0.) That way, when a forum message is retrieved in the tags results, clicking on the message takes you to the start of the topic. This eliminates the common problem of multiple messages in the same topic being returned in a tag search result set.