Tech Note: Favorites, Now Taggable
Charles Johnson
Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 4:21 pm PDT • Views: 237
The LGF enhancement du jour: a very helpful tool for organizing your saved favorites, a tool that we will call “tags.” Because everyone else does.
In your My Favorites page, each saved favorite can now have its own series of tags (or keywords). Click the “Tags” link at lower right of the favorite to display and edit the tags.
Tags work best as single words. At the simplest level, you could use just one tag per favorite, and think of it as a category. If you have more than one tag per favorite, of course, it gives you more ways to group and display your data.
Enter each tag/keyword on the tag line separated by spaces, then click the Save button. You get 64 characters maximum for the tags for each favorite, so don’t try to write the Great American Novel in there.
Another restriction to keep in mind: the tags must be more than three characters in length.
(For those concerned about security—among them, myself—the tags cannot contain any HTML or Javascript, and are thoroughly sanitized before being used in any server-side operations or displayed to users. As with any and all user input at LGF.)
The next time you load the Favorites page, the “Tags” drop-down menu will contain a list of all the tags you have defined, in alphabetical order. You can select one of the tags, then click “Apply filter” to view all the favorites with that tag; select the “All” option to show them all again.
It’s a very free-form way of organizing the favorites, but it’s quite powerful. More to come.
Frank says: