Details on using and managing Media Content Tags
Tags Everywhere: Media Albums and Objects¶
All Media Albums and individual Media Objects support tagging and are fully integrated in the Sueetie Global Tagging architecture and Sueetie Search. Media Tagging uses the Sueetie Tag Control and is an example of how the Sueetie Framework adds functionality sometimes not available in the base application, in this case, Gallery Server Pro.
As you know, Roger Martin's Gallery Server Pro is a fantastic media application. But Gallery Server Pro does not support tagging out-of-the-box. With the Sueetie Tag Control and Sueetie Framework APIs, now it does!
Tag Display
Tags are displayed with every media album and media object when the gallery is viewed in
Expanded View. Here is a view of tagged albums followed by tagged documents.
Using Media Tags
Sueetie Media Tags are fully integrated with the global tagging architecture of Sueetie and Sueetie Search. Let's look at Sueetie Search integration. When you click on a "Document Management" tag, for example, you go to Sueetie Search where all site content tagged "Document Management" is displayed. You can filter the results using the application selection on the search page.
From an administrative standpoint, remember that any tagging updates you make to Media Albums and Objects will not be retrieved using Sueetie Search until the next time the Search Indexer runs. This is set by default to 60 minutes but can be changed in /util/config/tasks.config.
Managing Media Tags
Media Album and Object tags are managed through the Gallery Server Pro Action Menu by selecting either the "Edit Sueetie Media Object Details" or "Edit Sueetie Album Details" menu items.
Here's a screenshot of adding tags to Media Objects. Editing and adding tags to Media Albums is exactly the same. The
Sueetie Tag Control is used, so you will expand the control to display the Tag Editor as elsewhere.
One final point to make about editing Media tags. Tags are updated through a WCF Service and outside of the Media application, so to reflect the tag updates in your Media Albums and Objects remember to click one of the "Process Update" buttons. This will update the cache and return you to the album list page where your updates are displayed immediately.
