Working With Tags

Tags perform a couple of important functions in Tactic. Firstly, they provide a means of organizing your resources. Second, they permit you to narrow which resources are made available in selection lists presented in the options lists on the back of tiles.

Using tags in resource lists

The primary way in which you assign tags to to resources is via the tags field that appears on the right when you are viewing your resource library.

Clicking on the image of a tag on the left causes the viewer to only show resources with that tag.

Nested tags

Notice how, in the above image, the genesis colleciton has “nltk/book” as a tag. When a “/” appears in a tag, it is treated as a nested tag. In this case, the book tag is now a tag within the nltk folder, and that relationship is reflected in the tag list on the left. You can have as many layers of nesting as your like.

Note that “nltk” can still function as a tag in its own right.

Using tags in tile options and exports

For tile options that present a selection list to the user, you can specify tags. If you do, the selection list will be narrowed to resources that match the tags. For example, if you create an option of type list_select, and you specify the tag “stop_list”, then the user will only see lists with the stop_list tag when selecting a list on the back of the tile. The image below shows what this will look like in the Creator.

You can also assign tags to tile exports. Then if tags are assigned to a pipe_select option, the user will only see exports that match the tag.

Special Tags

There are a number of tags that have special meanings in Tactic. I shall list them now.

default

Tiles with this tag will be automatically loaded when you log in (or after you unload all tiles).

starter

Resources in this repository that include this tag are automatically included in the library when a new account is created.

hidden

Resources that have this tag will not be visible unless the show hidden switch is on.

all

Clicking on this special tag at the top of the tag list shows all of your resources (that aren’t hidden). Assigning this tag to one of your resources won’t have any effect. (At least, it shouldn’t. I haven’t tried it in a while.)