The SPSTagging webparts are a set of webparts designed to work along to SPSRollUp webpart.
These new webparts has no cost for users of SPSRollUp, and should be distributed in a solution a part and installed separately.
At moment the solution has two webparts: SPSTagCloud and SPSRenameTag
SPSTagCloud
SPSTagCloud is a webpart designed to show a tag cloud with terms that come from any list in a web site.
SPSTagCloud, has three parts, the first one show a cloud with the tags, using this cloud you can select a tag, then the tag is added to the selected tags group.
In order to remove a tag from selection, you can click on it and the tag is removed.
Optionally, the webpart can show a related tag cloud, this cloud show the tags that accompany those who are selected; you can use this cloud also to select tags.
When the mouse is over the tag in the tag clouds in the tooltip you can see the frequency and the percentage that the tag represents.
In the webpart properties, there are the next options:
Lists: You can specify the name of list or lists where find the tags, if there is more than one list you should separate the names with commas. If the field is empty, the webpart search in all lists in the current web.
Tag Column Name: The field name that contains the tags.
Delimiters: The delimiters that are used to separate each tag in the tag field. You can specify more than one delimiter.
Max Tags: The maximum number of tags to show in the cloud.
Selected tags title: The title to show the selected tags.
Related tags title: The title to show for the related tag cloud.
Remove tag text: The text to show in the tooltip of selected tags.
Show related tags: When selected the related tag clod is showed.
Show counters: When selected a small counter with the number of references is showed.
Sort tags by frequency: Sorts the tags by frequency, the default order is alphabetical.
Use CSS: If selected the webpart use a CSS, included in the solution there is a CSS file that is stored in the layouts directory, this file SPSTagging.css contains the styles used in the webpart.
Use logarithmic font size: When this option is selected the font size specified by the CSS is ignored and the webpart calc a font size using a logarithmic formula.
CSS Prefix: The prefix used in the CSS, by default is “Tag” but you can create new styles in the SPSTagging.css using a new prefix.
Send empty query when no tags are selected: Selecting this option the Tag cloud send a query that shouldn’t retry any value, this query is sent when no tags are selected. By default when there are no tags selected the SPSTagCloud send an empty query, then as result, in the target webpart all results are showed, because there is no filter.
Connecting the SPSTagCloud with the SPSRollUp WebPart
In order to connect both webparts, you need do the connection and send the query tags from SPSTagCloud to the SPSRollUp webpart.
After in the SPSRollUp properties you should add the [query:] parameter in the CAML Query.
