Wiki Weekly Tips

Tags

Tags are words and phrases that can be associated with workspace pages to make searching easier.  If a page is tagged with a keyword, and that keyword is searched for, the pages with that tag will appear at the top of the list. 

Here's how to put tags on pages:

1. Click the "Add Tags" link on the side of each workspace page.  If you can't see this link, then you don't have sufficient permission to create tags.

   

2. When you click the Add Tags link, you should see an input box appear.  It will have some gray example, text, but once you click inside the box, the example text will disappear.

   

3. Add the words you want associated with the page.  Tags should be separated by commas, but if you want two words to be one tag, simply leave the comma out.  

   

4. Click OK, and the tags will be added to the page.

   

Searching Tips

Your workspace offers you a robust search engine. Use these search tips to fine-tune your results:

• A plus sign (+) before a word means it must be included in search results (eg: brown +cow returns pages that may contain "brown" but must contain "cow")
• A minus sign (-) before a word means it must be removed from search results. (eg: brown -cow returns pages that contain “brown” but not “cow”)
• Quotes ("") around a phrase returns that exact phrase (eg: "brown cow" returns pages that include the exact phrase “brown cow")
• Also, search results are sorted by weight, which means that a page with a lot of the mention of the keyword will show up at the top of the list.
• The order of search keywords does not affect score / output.
• Adding "tag:foo" anywhere in the search box will constrain the search to only look at pages tagged "foo" (and their comments). You can't yet perform a search that will only look at pages tagged with both "foo" and "bar". (I.e., you can only search with one tag restriction at a time)
• Adding "folder:foo" anywhere in the search box will constrain the search to only look at pages in folder "foo" (and their comments). This doesn't yet apply to files in that folder.
• Searching across attachment content (.DOC, .PDF, .XLS, .PPT, .TXT) is a feature currently available only to paying users.
• Add "type:file" to your search inquiry to search just files, "type:user" to search for just users, "type:pages" to search just within pages, or "src:" to search within the source code.