Tagging and rating

Get an overview of the administrative tasks related to tagging and rating.

Portal administrators can perform the following tasks:
  • Enable or disable tagging and rating for portal users. Tagging and rating is enabled in the Portal 8.0 theme and the Page Builder theme. You can disable and enable tagging and rating globally for the portal as a whole. To do this, use the following configuration properties:
    • To disable and enable tagging portal wide, use the property com.ibm.wps.cp.tagging.isTaggingEnabled .
    • To disable and enable rating portal wide, use the property com.ibm.wps.cp.rating.isRatingEnabled .
    For details about portal service configuration properties and how to set them refer to the topics about Portal configuration services and Setting service configuration properties.
  • Add custom content that users can tag and rate, for example, pages, portlets, content managed by Web Content Manager, or custom content such as books in a bookstore.
    Note: If you want your users to be able to tag and rate custom content, you have to write code that allows finding this content by using the public APIs. You also have to add the resources that you want your users to tag to the portal. Custom content is anything apart from portlets, portal pages, and Web Content Manager resources. For details see Allowing your own custom content to be tagged and rated.
  • Assign access rights to users for tagging and rating content. For details refer to the topic about Security for tagging and rating.
  • Administer the tag clouds. Administrators can set multiple parameters that affect the tag cloud. Two examples are described here in detail. For a list of the possible tag cloud parameters refer to the topic about The default tagging and rating user interface and the tagging and rating reference topics.
    • Scope tag clouds to the kind of resources for which you want tags to be displayed. A default tag cloud displays all tags that users have applied in the portal. Administrators can change this behavior. For example, you can limit a tag cloud to display tags that have been applied only to pages, portlets, or books. You scope tag clouds by setting either categories or type schemas for them. The tag cloud represents only portal content that matches the categories or type schemas that you specified. You can scope each single tag cloud instance differently. Scoping tag clouds also affects the result lists of resources shown when users click a tag. The result list shows only resources of the scoped type. For example, if a tag cloud is scoped to the type photo, the result list shows only photo images.
    • Configure the tag cloud behavior. Tag clouds can react differently to tag clicks:
      • Either the user is redirected to the portal Tag Center and a result list of resources that have this tag applied is displayed.
      • Or the tag cloud exposes the clicked tags as shared render parameters, so that, for example, other portlets on the same page can display corresponding content.
  • Stage a tagspace to a different portal system, for example, when moving your portal to a staging server or migrating your portal to a new version. For details about how to do this refer to the topic about Using the XML configuration interface to administer tags and ratings.
  • Obtain statistics about the tagging and rating behavior of the portal users.
  • Administrators can also perform all tasks that portal users can perform as described in the topics about portal user tasks.