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Taxonomy

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Open Social Open Social • 13 December 2016

Taxonomy

This chapter explains what taxonomy is, what are the vocabulary names, how do they work and how to create new taxonomy terms for Site Managers.

Taxonomy is used in Open Social for creating tags for member profiles or content. This can only be configured by Site Managers who can create custom tag categories and their own tags. Community members can then tag content, groups or their profiles with the available tags, follow tags as well as filter on the tags on the overview and search pages.

To create new tags, go to the Site Manager Dashboard > Taxonomy (direct URL: /admin/structure/taxonomy). This page displays the available Vocabulary name (tag categories), their description, option to add new sets as well as to view the tags. By default, you'll see the following vocabulary sets:

  • Topic types - used to categorize topics during their creation.
  • Content tags - for content like Topics, Events, Basic Pages, etc. Community members can follow these tags as an area of their interest, and Site Manager may create categories of content tags.
  • Event types - used to categorize events. This will display on the event cards when featured on a Landing Page as well as on overview and Search pages.
  • Expertise - logged-in users can add their expertise to their profiles either with the pre-determined tags by Site Managers, or they may add their own terms when editing their profiles.
  • Group type - used to categorize groups during the creation of a group. 
  • Interests - logged-in users can add their interests to their profiles either with the pre-determined tags by Site Managers, or they may add their own terms when editing their profiles.
  • Nationality - logged-in users may list their Nationality when editing their profiles. Site Managers may expand or limit the list of available nationalities.
  • Profile Organisation tags - Site Manager may tag member profiles with an organization tag to display a checkmark next to their name as well as the organization tag will be added to the activity stream (e.g. Adela Kalkantova from Open Social created a post)
  • Profile tag - Site Managers may tag member profiles with these tags for filtering and searching purposes.
  • Report reasons - a list of reasons logged-in user can choose from when reporting content.
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How to create a new tag, type or term

To create a new entry into the above taxonomies, you can click on the arrow next to "List terms". Then you can choose to Add Terms.

Add terms

From there you can simply fill out the form to add a new term.

Content Tags: Need a category!

An important thing to note with Content Tags is that they all need to belong to a category. So you first need to create the Category name (i.e. "Country") and select New Category in the "Placement" field:

 

Then, you can create the tag itself, which can be placed in the category you just created (i.e. Netherlands is the tag in the Country category):

 

Then it will appear on content as below: