Taglocity General Discussion Forum

Sorry, I've looked around in the forum a bit and haven't seen this, so apologies if I'm rehashing something that's been discussed already.

Request: 
Provide a hierarchal folder browse view such that ... assume you have 3 items.
  Item 1 tagged with:  a b c
  Item 2 tagged with:  a b
  Item 3 tagged with:  c

Then your folder view would look like

a-
  |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
  |->Item 2 (optional display for partial tag matches) 
  |-b
    |->Item 2
    |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
    |-c
      |->Item 1
  |-c
    |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
    |-b
      |->Item 1
   
b-
  |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
  |->Item 2 (optional display for partial tag matches) 
  |-a
    |->Item 2
    |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
    |-c
      |->Item 1
  |-c
    |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
    |-b
      |->Item 1

c-
  |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
  |->Item 3
  |-a
    |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
    |-b
      |->Item 1
  |-b
    |->Item 1 (optional display for partial tag matches)
    |-a
      |->Item 1

I'll have a play with this and see how it works.

One thing worth pointing out is that if you haven't see/used the TagSearch viewer yet it was taken out of the OL2007 build, so you might not have) then it might be worth looking at as an approach for what you want. The next drop will put it back in the OL2007 version.

I often use the TagSearch to produce a 'Query by Example' list that could be represented by an hierarchy, as you can form complex queries using the AND/OR/NOT sequence.

For example, I can see the 'a's by clicking tag 'a', I can add the 'b's by click 'b'. This first click makes it an 'a AND b'. If I click tag b again I turn the query into a 'a OR b'. You can also cycle on another click to get a 'NOT' condition too. The good thing about this viewer is to use simple clicks and show results back fast, allowing you to browse.

Because the TagSearch uses the underlying desktop search then the results come back very quickly.

I know this isn't exactly the same as you are suggesting, but the trouble with a hierarchy approach, is that for many tags (a common number for people is 50+) it can start to grow a pretty wide tree. The combinations get worse over time.