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tag clouds on the horizon

Aug 10

Written by: fatgeorge
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:01:53 GMT 

Recently chundemer asked in the forum about tag clouds and view counts for XMod, it just so happens that I am currently working on two such add ons.
I have been thinking about building these for a while but never got around to it, I would like to use such controls and evidently so would others.

Recently I finally started with the tag cloud, the idea is to provide a method of navigating and filtering XMod records.

There is a demo at http://www.fatgeorge.co.uk/products/tagcloud/tabid/122/Default.aspx of the control, it is currently a work in progress.
The demo tag cloud's tags are hardcoded but you can see how the filtering works, it uses URL filtering on the list template.
Each tag is constructed as an anchor tag which points to the href of the page displaying the list template, the href also passes a tag prameter.

In this demo the tag cloud is on the same page as the list template and so just provides a filtering mechanism, the cloud could just as easily be on the home page and provide a means of navigation the the list template page.

The tags are entered on the XMod form in an input control as a comma seperated list, this means that users can create whatever tags they like.

Once I have completed the XMod data integration, I will then add the parameters required to configure the control e.g.

formname = name of form to process.
tagfield = name of field on form containing tags, will default to "tags".
showall = a means of displaying a "show all" tag to basically remove any filtering.
showall_text = customise the showall tag text.
css = apply css styling to the tag cloud so that you can control the display of tags.

Please feel free to give it a try, and more importantly please make any comments or suggestions either here or in the fatgeorge forums/product feedback.

Happy tagging.

p.s. once I complete the tag cloud I will move on to the view count control.

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Re: tag clouds on the horizon

Hi George, this looks great. When do you think it will be ready?

By quest4denali on   Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:51:52 GMT
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