This section explains how administrators can manage tags:

• Introduction
• Accessing the Tags overview page
• Ways to create tags
  • In the entity overview pages
  • In the entity detail pages
  • In the Tags overview page
  • Getting tags from external sources
• Editing tags

Introduction

Tags are a way to group and classify content in the CMS. This makes it easier to manage, search, and show related items on your site.

By assigning tags to content entities​ — such as stories, photos, or documents​ — you can group them by shared topics, themes, or attributes, without affecting their structure or location.

Accessing the Tags overview page

To manage tags in the CMS, start by logging into FORGE Content Manager with the appropriate permissions. Once logged in, in the top-left corner, select the hamburger menu icon:

In the hamburger menu, select Tags:

This opens the Tags overview page. From here you can see the tags you have, make new ones, change tag names, and delete tags you don't use.

Read the Searching entities article for more information about how overview pages work.

If you don't see the Tags section, it may need enabling by an administrator.

Ways to create tags

FORGE provides four ways to create tags:

• In the entity overview pages
• In the entity detail pages
• In the Tags overview page
• Getting tags from external sources

In the entity overview pages

You can add tags to content in entity overview pages. This example uses the story overview page:

1. Select the stories to tag
2. Select the tag icon at the bottom of the screen
3. Create a new tag

This process works the same for all entity types.

In the entity detail pages

You can add tags to content in entity detail pages. This example uses the story detail page: 

1. Select the tags icon on the right side of the page:
2. The Context and Tags section displays where creating a new tag:

This process works the same for all entity types.

In the Tags overview page

1. Select the New button:
2. The following pop-up window displays so that you can create a new tag by adding a tag title:
3. Select Create to save the new tag (it then appears in the list of available tags)

Getting tags from external sources

Refer to the dedicated External tags article.

Editing tags

The tag detail page consists of three sections:

1. Translations: The tag translations work as for each custom entity. Find more information in the Translations with language-independent workflow article.
2. Main details:
   • Type of tag: Read-only. Select from:
     • Internal: When the tag is created by editing entities or in the overview page.
     • Custom entity: When a custom entity is configured to be used ‌as a tag in Administration -> Custom Entities. In the example below, the custom entity Visual Card is configured to be used as a tag:
       
       
     • External: When the tag is imported from an external source. See the dedicated External tags article.
   • Source: Read-only. Select from:
     • Forge: When the tag is created within FORGE.
     • Source name/URL: When the tag comes from an external source.
   • Relations: Counts how many entities the tag references.
   • Extra data: Enriches the tag with structured information in JSON format. The front-end implementation uses extra data to render the tagged content.
3. Main properties:
   • Entity code: The tag's unique identifier.
   • Slug: The tag's human-readable and language-independent unique identifier.