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Allow editing and adding lightweight tags for any kind of record to identify records easily.

Characteristics of tags:

• Non-translateable - the same tag for all languages
• Reuse tags by suggesting existing tags

Installation

Use composer req b13/tag or download the package from the official TYPO3 Extension Repository.

You need TYPO3 v9 or later for this extension to work.

Configuration

Add a database field for keywords/tags in your database table:

keywords int(11) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL

For enabling tags in your TCA table of TYPO3, configure it like this in your database table (Configuration/TCA/tx_my_table.php).

'keywords' => [
    'label' => 'Keywords',
    'config' => (new \B13\Tag\TcaHelper())->buildFieldConfiguration('tx_my_table', 'keywords')
]

\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility::addToAllTCAtypes('tx_my_table', 'keywords');

As all tags are stored in sys_tag and all its relations within sys_tag_mm, you're on your own whatever you want to do with tags in your system, however multiple functionality might be added later-on.

Known bugs

• JavaScript does not care about the ordering of the tags in a list, which would be really cool. This stems from the fact that the JavaScript library (originally taken from Bootstrap-TagsInput)

Missing features

• Permission handling: Make certain tags "read-only" for editors, so they can not remove specific tags from a record.
• Allow to only search for tags on a per-pid basis
• Allow to configure the "pid"
• Allow numeric tag names
• Limit max number of tags for a specific field
• Use LLL labels

License

The extension is licensed under GPL v2+, same as the TYPO3 Core. For details see the LICENSE file in this repository.

Credits

This extension was created by Benni Mack in 2019 for b13 GmbH, Stuttgart.

• Typeahead functionality from https://github.com/bassjobsen/Bootstrap-3-Typeahead
• https://github.com/hrobertson/bootstrap-tagsinput/ for Bootstrap Tags-Input

For Bootstrap 4, we might use https://github.com/Nodws/bootstrap4-tagsinput

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