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November 30, 2005
Tagging under the hood
Todays planning meeting showed up a couple of instances of situation where you don't quite realise what you've built till you've built it.
Even in it's current, primitive state the system allows tags to be attatched to pretty much anything and searched on. This turned out to make the requirements for labelling content as approved by a particular organisation, or being able to view a users action history within the system much more straightforward than usual.
Simply assign an appropriate tag - and when needed run a search to generate the appropriate list of content or register that a given tag is 'special' and display it appropriately. While the time saving here is probably in hours rather than days it does lead to a more straightforward piece of software under the hood, and it's got me thinking about what else might be possible with the tagging tool we've built.
(stories Organisation 04 and User Profile 04 on the story list)
Posted by Martin Lloyd at November 30, 2005 5:29 PM
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