Hi all,

Are there such things as Tag Groups or Categories? I want to create a form that allows people to tick off the tags they want to use (we will give a set selection) and I wanted to group them up so they have a block related to Industry, another grouped as States and another grouped as Decades.

This is easy with a form as it’s just a case of using CSS and hardcoding but what if I want to make it a bit dynamic and have the form automatically add them if we create more tags?

The other thing is that I want to capture a Town field and add that as a tag but I don’t want the user to be able to tick it off as there could be hundreds of towns and if I could categorise that one too then I can set the search form to not print out the town tags.

Hope this makes sense!

I don’t want a tag cloud either otherwise we might end up with this - http://www.hurricanearchive.org/tags/

Can anyone help with this? I am writing up a spec sheet now and I need to know if I can include this.

It seems to be the season of answering my own forum posts but I have discovered this isn’t a feature yet but it would be very welcome if I could categorise tags.

Do you know if it’s possible to group tags alphabetically?

For example -

A

Aardvark Abracadabra Accounts Affordable

B

Badminton Beasts Bollinger

C

etc etc etc

Hey Stinhambo,

Sorry for the delays in response.

And this will be quite the anti-climax…

There is no such grouping in the Tag module. That’s quite a complex task indeed.

mk

Damn thats a shame. So I will have to present a big mess of tags?

I was thinking of something that could just scan the first letter of the tag and put them under a letter as above. If tags are categories then couldn’t they be entered like this -

A
Apple

B
Boston

etc like normal categories and sub categories?

Just playing Devils advocate here

The Tag architecture would help you do what you’re describing, but you’ll need to write your own SQL queries in the page.

mk

Yes SQL queries were what I was getting at. At least I can do that to make it look nicer.