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Function documentationTag Clouds

 

You can use tag clouds to display your tags, on the home page of a business role in the WebClient UI.

Prerequisites

Enable Tag Clouds

To enable tag clouds, you need to select checkbox Enable tag clouds in the Settings block on the central personalization page of the WebClient UI. If tag clouds are enabled, you can tag business objects by clicking the corresponding icon in the toolbar.

To enable tag clouds in your business role, you need to assign parameter TAG_CLOUDS_ALLOWED with profile value TRUE via the function profile PARAMETERS to your business role. You do this in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path Business Roles Next navigation step Define Business Role End of the navigation path.

You can, however, disable tag clouds for individual UI object types in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path UI Framework Definition Next navigation step Tag Clouds Next navigation step Define Settings for Tag Clouds End of the navigation path. These settings apply to all business roles.

Enable Community Sharing

To enable community sharing in your business role, you need to assign parameter TAG_CLOUDS_COMMUNITY with profile value TRUE via the function profile PARAMETERS to your business role. You do this in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path Business Roles Next navigation step Define Business Role End of the navigation path.

You can, however, disable the community sharing for your business role, if you assign parameter TAG_CLOUDS_COMMUNITY with profile value OFF via the function profile PARAMETERS to your business role in the above-mentioned Customizing activity.

Define Tag Result Lists

You can define the columns that are to be displayed in every tag result list in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path UI Framework Definition Next navigation step Tag Clouds Next navigation step Define Settings for Tag Result Lists End of the navigation path.

Enable Dynamic Navigation Support

To enable navigation support, you need to define the generic outbound settings in Customizing for UI Framework under Start of the navigation path Technical Role Definition Next navigation step Define Navigation Bar Profile End of the navigation path.

Features

You can add tags to any business object in the WebClient UI. If you click the tag cloud icon in the toolbar on the overview page of a business object, you can add a tag to the current business object. You can also search for existing tags to add them to this business object, and easily delete your own tags assigned to this business object. If other users have added tags to a business object, you can also add these suggested tags to the same business object.

Your tags are organized in tag clouds that are displayed on the home page of your business role. You can see your own tags in your personal tag cloud, and those of all users who are logged on to the system with the same business role, in a community tag cloud. The text sizing of tags is used to represent the most commonly used tags, which means that the font size of tags in a tag cloud is based on the number of objects that are assigned to this tag.

In the tag cloud, you can do the following:

  • Organize tags in your personal tag cloud and in the community tag cloud alphabetically and according to occurrence, in ascending and descending order

  • Search for your own tags or for all community tags. The search result is displayed in a tag cloud.

  • Search for business objects that are related to your own tags, or for business objects that are related to all community tags. The search result is displayed in tag result lists on a tag result page.

  • Display popular tags, which are community tags that are listed in a table. You can personalize the number of popular tags that are displayed in the tag cloud.

  • Display your five most recent tags. If you choose one of the most recent tags, you navigate either to the tag result page or to the overview page of a single business object.

  • Clear your personal tags

If you click a tag that is assigned to several business objects, a result page is started where the business objects are grouped in tag result lists. Every tag result list is based on an individual UI object type.

Activities

To make tag clouds available on the home page of your business role, proceed as follows:

  1. Add the content block for tag clouds to the home page

    You need to add UI component WCF_TAG_CLOUDS to the component usages in the runtime repository of the UI component workbench. You need to do this in the UI component that contains the home page of your business role.

  2. Configure the tag result page

    You define the columns that are to be displayed on the tag result page. You can change the order of tag result lists that are displayed on the tag result page, by using business add-in WCF_MIXED_LIST.

    After you have defined the columns of the tag result lists, you need to adapt the UI configurations of the corresponding UI object type. These configurations are available via UI component WCF_MIXED_LIST in the UI configuration tool.

  3. Enable tag clouds in your business role

  4. Enable dynamic navigation support

    You need to make sure that the navigation bar profile of your business role supports dynamic navigation, which is necessary either when you navigate to the overview page of a business object or when tag result lists are displayed.