What are tags and tag groups?

Tags are like index keywords you and others assign to content and use to look for content. When you create or edit content, it's a good idea to make sure that the list of tags assigned to the content accurately describes what's in it. One way to do this is to ask yourself what tags you would use to look for this content if you were searching for it.

Tag groups collect tags so that you can find content by or assign all of the collected tags at once. For example, if you wanted to browse content via a tag group that collected the tags new_products and research, you'd get all content to which either tag had been assigned (rather than, say, any content to which both tags had been assigned).

As a general rule, always try to make sure that content you edit has a useful set of tags and tag groups assigned to it.

How do I apply tags and tag groups?

You can assign tags and tag groups to the following content types when you're creating or editing them:

• A document, such as a wiki document or uploaded file (but not its comments).
• A blog post (but not its comments).
• The initial post of a discussion thread (but not its replies).

To assign tags, open the content for editing and scroll to the bottom of the page. Beneath the editing window, in the Tag box, type the tags you want to assign to the content you have open. Where possible, it's best to use tags that already exist. That way, you stand a better chance of assigning tags that users are already familiar with and that might be assigned to related content. The easiest way to apply existing tags is to just click the name of a tag in Popular Tags list; if you know the name of an existing tag (or if it's not listed), you can also just type it.