Tags¶

Besides organizing your views, web services and external elements in domains and categories, the Data Marketplace allows you to assign tags to your resources. A tag is a label you can use to describe an element and to retrieve it later when browsing or searching.

Tags can be defined directly using Data Marketplace or it is also possible to import them from Virtual DataPort during synchronization with the Semantics FeaturePack. Both are available for browsing or searching, but they are slightly different:

• Tags imported from Virtual DataPort are read-only. It is not possible to edit or assign them in Data Marketplace.

• Virtual DataPort allows you to assign tags to views and view fields.

• Tags defined in Data Marketplace can be assigned to views, web services and external elements, but not to their fields.

To start browsing your views, web services and external elements by tags, go to Browse > Tags. The sidebar shows the list of tags available in the Data Marketplace. Click a tag and access its details.

Browsing by tags¶

In the right panel, you have the tag description. If this tag was created within Data Marketplace and you have the proper permissions, you will be able to edit this information. Use the icon next to the name or description to update its value. Click the Assign to elements button and access a new page where you can change the set of views and web services that are described by the tag. For external elements this functionality can be performed from the details page of an external element.

In this panel you can also navigate to the following pills:

• Views. This pill shows the views assigned to the selected tag. If the tag was imported from Virtual DataPort, it also shows those views containing some field assigned to the tag. Along with the view data, the number of fields in the view associated with the selected tag is displayed in the Fields with tag section. For more details on tagged fields, click the icon and a new dialog will be displayed with the following information for each field:

  • Name.

  • Tags. This column shows the number of tags associated with that field. Hovering over this number displays the names of the associated tags. Note that the selected tag will be highlighted. To navigate to the details of a tag, just click its name.

  • Description.

  

  Dialog with the view fields tagged¶

• Web services. This pill shows the web services assigned to the selected tag. For tags imported from Virtual DataPort, the results list will be empty.

• External elements. This pill shows the external elements assigned to the selected tag. For tags imported from Virtual DataPort, the results list will be empty.

You can filter the tags in the sidebar using the search bar under the pills menu. Type some query terms on it and press ENTER (or click the icon).