Displaying a list of all tags

[rogerco]

Is it possible to have a view that lists all tags with their description in a table with the tag name linking to a view of all articles with that tag?

In an ideal system the tags would be able to have a parent tag (as they do in Joomla core) so that you could have a tag called say "Names" and then a set of tags called say "Marx" "Engels" "Lenin" "Stalin" which have "Names" as a parent tag. Then the tag list view could list just all tags with a specific parent. Then if you've got a lot of tags the index list doesn't have to be excessively long if say you are just wanting to show all the persons names that have been used in tagging documents.

RogerCO

PS this might be two feature requests - one to have a tag list view, and the other to have tags able to have a parent tag to create a hierarchy.

[Jan]

Hi, added both to feature request list. Not sure with the second - with the categories for the tags

Jan

[rogerco]

Great.
I was thinking of the way Joomla core tags work - not separate categories for tags but a tag able to have a parent tag (which would default to 'root' or 'no parent') so that you can create a hierarchy and then be able to display only tags having a common parent. Very much like the hierarchy of menu entries.
Presumably just an extra field for the table that stores tags with the id of the parent tag (default 0 or -1 or something). Once that is in place it is then a change in the backend new tag form to add a parent field, and an option in the tag list view to display all tags or restrict to just tags having a particular parent.
rogerCO

[Jan]

The question is maybe if there should be implemented the tag feature of Joomla! itself

Jan