For a client I had pretty strict requirements for community tagging and was unable to work with the exposed UI for adding and removing tags from Community Tags. So, I created a Flickr-like UI which you can see demoed at http://www.screencast.com/t/ZGYxZmRlN which was accomplished with a custom block implementing community tags functions.

entrigan, I know you have plans for Community Tags 2.0 and I'd like to help. Consider this post a discussion for implementing a generalized, and easily alterable UI for community tags.

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bryancasler’s picture

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Would you mind sharing your setup, I very much would like to replicate what you have done.

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Sorry for taking so long to respond, hopefully we still have some interest in this.

I think there is definitely a large set of use-cases that would benefit from having a single block with all tags listed together but with add/delete options as in your demo.

I guess the question A) what UI helper functions do we need and B) what UI presets do we need (by this I mean options such as the existing inline/block/tab).

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Here is an example implementation I did recently: ctags_demo

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I can't get to the screencast but I need this for a project I'm working on as well. We want users to be able to tag nodes and we're having trouble with the existing tab/block options suiting our users. Can you post steps we can use to mod the existing UI?

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@coltrane, @entrigan (#3):

Very beautiful implementations, I like them much better than what 1.x currently has to offer!

Any chance this might get into CVS?

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Just to second that this is a great module and worth maintaining - here's an example of combining dialog module with community tags via hook_form_alter() and hook_menu_alter() - http://screencast.com/t/ZImMyxVP1JVZ.

bryancasler’s picture

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#6 Is this possible on drupal 6.x?

chaps2’s picture

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#7 Absolutely! The screencast is drupal 6.

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Any update on this issue?