So I want to be able to allow administrators to tag content pages so front end users can filter content pages by selected tag or tags. What is the best way to achieve this? Should 'tag' be a non viewable content / document type? Or can I achieve what I need using the tags datatype?
Take a look at how filtering is done in the blog4umbraco package at http://blog4umbraco.codeplex.com, that should work just fine for what you describe.
Basically, you tag pages, and the by passing a querystring value to your filtering page, you filter pages based on that value. You could probably implement the same functionality without the explicit querystring passing, if you'd like.
Best way to create filterable content tags?
So I want to be able to allow administrators to tag content pages so front end users can filter content pages by selected tag or tags. What is the best way to achieve this? Should 'tag' be a non viewable content / document type? Or can I achieve what I need using the tags datatype?
Thanks for any advice...
Take a look at how filtering is done in the blog4umbraco package at http://blog4umbraco.codeplex.com, that should work just fine for what you describe.
Basically, you tag pages, and the by passing a querystring value to your filtering page, you filter pages based on that value. You could probably implement the same functionality without the explicit querystring passing, if you'd like.
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