[horde] Tag Cloud

Simon Brereton simon.brereton at buongiorno.com
Wed Sep 14 14:28:00 UTC 2011


> -----Original Message-----
> From: horde-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:horde-
> bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Michael J Rubinsky
> Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > What is the purpose, or better, the input for the Tag cloud?  I
> would
> > have expected it to be a tag cloud of key words from emails or
> > something like that, but it's permanently empty.
> >
> 
> Since you don't mention where you are seeing this tag cloud, I am
> going to assume it's the tag cloud block on the portal. This tag
> cloud contains, well, tags from any application that exposes them via
> the SearchTag API. Clicking on one of the tag names would display (in
> the
> block) a list of items/links from any of those applications that
> match the tag - sort of a horde-wide tag search.

Sorry - I assumed since I was posting to the horde list it was self-explanatory.  But yes, it's the portal block.  

> That being said, it's a leftover from Horde 3, where Ansel (photos)
> and Jonah (blog) exported their tags. Neither of these apps are
> released yet for Horde 4. In Horde 4, tag support was also added to
> Kronolith but I don't think the API support was added yet to export
> tags to this block. This block will most likely be refactored to use
> the new tagging system anyway.
> 
> Bottom line is you don't have any applications that export the tag
> data for this block. Though, ideally, the block should be smart
> enough to figure this out.

I agree.  In that case, I'll leave it there and hope to see some improvements when they rollout.

Cheers

Simon





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