Problem with Creating Multiple Tags at Once

[laura_fritsche]

Dear Alfresco community,

I am very sorry if this might not be the right section to ask this question (then please move it) or if this question was already answered somewhere else. I searched for it but did not find it.

We are using the Alfresco Community 5.1 version and need tags very much. In the <a href="http://docs.alfresco.com/community/tasks/site-content-tag.html" target="_blank">documentation</a> it is said that it should be possible to create multiple tags at once for one file. Unfortunately that does not work for us.

If we type <strong>x y</strong> the tag becomes <strong>x y</strong> together and not <strong>x</strong> and <strong>y</strong> separately.

Is this problem known and is there a solution for it? Creating each tag takes way too much time right now. To tag multiple files with one tag at once would also be a solution.

I wish you all a wonderful day!

All the best and thank you in advance,
Laura

[steven_okennedy]

Hi

I think that particular element in the documentation is referring to wikis and blogs only unfortunately.  Ironically, the document library used to work this way in earlier versions but was changed to allow easier entry of multi-word tags.

Probably the quickest way to add tags is to use the full Tags dialog that you get access to in the Edit Properties screen/popup.  From here you can type the name of each tag and click the button with the check mark next to it.  If the tag doesn't exist it will be created and added, if it does exist it will just be added.  If you leave your mouse over the check mark button so you can click immediately after entering a tag, you can add a good number of tags pretty quickly.

Not ideal though - the alternative is to create a modified version of the insitu editor used for tags entry and get it to split the tags based on something like a semi-colon;

Regards

Steven