Some basic info on how the Tag Cloud tag works in Domino Blog

Steve Castledine  8 September 2008 15:51:48

Reproduced from forthcoming documentation:

DXTagCloud provides an automatic tag cloud within your web pages:



The system outputs the tags in an unordered list. You need to surround the tag with unordered list html (UL) to complete it (this is so you can attach your own style if you wish).

You can set some configuration in the Configuration document within tabs "Formatting > Categories > Basic" fields:

No of Tag Cloud Levels: Default Value 4 - Used with the style sheet to show the distribution of "weight" of tags in use. For example the default of 4 shows the tags with 4 levels of weights. The tags then output each surrounded with list item html (li) and class of "tag4" being the highest (for the default of 4 "levels") or "tag1" being the lowest. eg < li class="tag4">tag name< /li >.

Min Entries for Tag Cloud: Default Value 1 - Allows you to filter the tag cloud a bit by specifying how many entries a "tag" needs before it will be shown on the cloud.

From 8.5 beta 2:

DXSmartTagCloud

Extends on DXTagCloud in that the system detects which "category" the current web page is in and displays a tag cloud of the tags filtered by that category:



This tag shares the same set up parameters as DXTagCloud so see that document for some configuration.

If the tag is placed on the home page, then it displays the same tag cloud that you would see if you had placed the original DXTagCloud there (so tags for all categories).

Clicking the tags links will display a list of documents that are in both the category and the tag selected. Clicking the category link in the cloud will show all documents again.

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