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[Chuck123]

I am in the process of switching the forum software I use and am looking into several different products. I was wondering if IPS had a thread tagging capability. I would like to set up a tagging system that lists a whole bunch of keywords on the page in a cloud/box so people can click on a keyword and see which threads they are in. I would really like something similar to the tag cloud in Vanilla Forums and was wondering if IPS had something similar to that. Would something like this come standard or would it be an add-on/mod?

[DijiDev]

Tag system is built-in hook in IPB.
You can see on my forum clicking my signature then FORUM and you will see tag block at side bar

(I have 2 tag block, yes. First is 3D )

[PW Nowe]

IPS recently did introduce the Tagging system, which does generate tags. Most tags are user-generated, but an administrator can make a general lists of tags that can be added to a topic if they so chose. It comes standard in the 3.2 series.

[Alfa1]

Tags do exist, and you can indeed tag threads in IPB. If you do not allow many tags in a thread, then it works nicer than Vanilla forum tags. (in my opinion)

The only but with IPB tags is, that tags are quite bulky in IPB, and they are positioned at the top of threads. So if a thread has a lot of tags, then this will fill much of the screen, before the first post is visible and can therefore be quite confusing to the user. My threads have up to 80 tags and tags can contain multiple words.
I'm not sure if it is possible to change the location of thread tags to the bottom of threads or if its possible to change the look. Does anyone know?

[bfarber]

Alfa1, on 24 January 2012 - 09:57 PM, said:

I'm not sure if it is possible to change the location of thread tags to the bottom of threads or if its possible to change the look. Does anyone know?

You can move them where-ever you want on the page, yes.  Ignoring the possibilities with CSS, the variable is in Topic View -> topicViewTemplate.  You'd just cut it from it's current position and then paste it back into the template where you want them to show instead.

[Chuck123]

Thanks for the responses everyone. I am really impressed by this software and all of its capabilities.

[Alfa1]

bfarber, on 25 January 2012 - 09:58 AM, said:

You can move them where-ever you want on the page, yes.  Ignoring the possibilities with CSS, the variable is in Topic View -> topicViewTemplate.  You'd just cut it from it's current position and then paste it back into the template where you want them to show instead.

Thats really awesome. For future reference: which template should be used to add it to the bottom of the thread?
Is it also possible to change the look of tags, to something more compact? (to allow a large number of tags to be displayed)

I really like how very helpful the staff on IPS is.

[DijiDev]

You will be very happy, i'm sure.
Because i have used phpBB and after, vB.
So i have experience with this software and i use IPB since over 5years.
IPB is different then others and support team is excellent!
They're all with you

[bfarber]

Alfa1, on 25 January 2012 - 05:24 PM, said:

Thats really awesome. For future reference: which template should be used to add it to the bottom of the thread?
Is it also possible to change the look of tags, to something more compact? (to allow a large number of tags to be displayed)

I really like how very helpful the staff on IPS is.

topicViewTemplate includes the entire page (except for individual posts, which are passed to the template 'post' in the same skin group).  So you would cut it from topicViewTemplate and paste it into topicViewTemplate in a different spot.

Code to look for

	<if test="hasTags:|:is_array($topic['tags'])">
		{$topic['tags']['formatted']['parsedWithoutComma']}
		<br />
	</if>

[Alfa1]

Thanks. Is it possible to change the look of tags to something more compact? Is that a simple edit?

[bfarber]

Alfa1, on 26 January 2012 - 05:10 PM, said:

Thanks. Is it possible to change the look of tags to something more compact? Is that a simple edit?

Yes, editable entirely through CSS.

[Alfa1]

Thats great. Many thanks.