Tagging Posts

Tagging Posts

Important Pulse is deprecated in Flare, which means that it is slated to be removed in a future version.

AVAILABLE TO: Administrators, Employees, and Customers

Tags are simple keywords and short phrases that describe what a piece of online content is about. In Pulse, tags are used as a means for categorizing Pulse feeds and Flare posts. Because tags can be informally created and applied to a variety of Pulse content (e.g., status updates, questions, articles, tasks, images, and videos), they are a particularly useful to members of the Administrators and Employees groups, as they help moderators better organize and find information. All registered users can add tags to posts that appear in any topic, group, tag, and user feed that you have access permission to view.

Example You are a member of the Administrators or Employees group and publishing Flare output for a project titled "Pets." You might want to create a different tag for each animal you've written a Flare topic about. For example, you might create tags for: cat, dog, fish, hamster, parrot, and turtle. You can then apply these tags to the embedded discussion form in Pulse.

Let's say you are a member of the Customers group and when reading another user's post, you decide you want to apply the existing tag (e.g., "dog") to a post. However, you also want to create two new tags. For example, you might create tags for dog breed and dog breed selector.

How to Create Tags and Tag Content

  1. Log into the Flare output using a registered Pulse account. See Logging In to Pulse.
  2. Locate a post in one of the topic feeds. In this example, we will show you how to add a tag to a status update. However, registered users can add tags to questions, articles, tasks, images, and videos.

  3. Immediately below the post, click the Tag link.

  4. In the Edit Tag dialog, you have these options:

    • Create a New Tag Type a simple keyword or short phrase. Unlike some tagging utilities, when a single tag consists of more than one word, you do not need to separate the words with an underscore (i.e., if you want to add a tag named "dog breed," simply type dog breed instead of dog_breed). However, if you are adding more than one tag, you must separate each tag with a comma. Then click Update.

      Example You want to add the tags "dog" and "dog breed" to a post. Below shows you how your tags would appear in the Edit Tag dialog before clicking Update.

      After clicking Update, the tags that you created appear below the post.

    • Add an Existing Tag Begin typing a simple keyword or short phrase. Then select a match from the list that appears, and click Update.

      Example You want to apply a tag that already exists to the post. Below shows you how a list of existing tags appears so you can select a match.

      After clicking Update, the tags that you created appear below the post.

Note If you are a member of the Administrators or Employees groups, you have additional options available to you when working with tags from the Flare content and Pulse dashboard. See Using the Tags Menu.

Note This feature also works with the Find Topic Leaders feature. See Finding Topic Leaders.