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What is a Tag?

Tags in Nodinite are powerful labels that help you organize, categorize, and manage everything you work with: Repository Model items, Resources, Log Views, Monitor Views, Articles, C4 Diagrams, Diagram Set entries, and more. With Tags, you can streamline large datasets, improve searchability, and enable efficient self-service for your business users.

  • ✅ One vocabulary across operations and architecture – Use the same Tags on Log Views, Monitor Views, Articles, and C4 Diagrams
  • ✅ Central management – Rename or clean up a Tag once, and every place that uses it follows
  • ✅ Tag many items at once – Consolidate, group, or set Tags on a whole selection with Manage Tags
  • ✅ Safe cleanup – Delete and restore Tags with their associations, or permanently remove them when you're sure

Tag Basics

  • A Tag must have a unique name. Maintaining Tags in one place ensures efficiency—changes affect all places where the Tag is used, saving you time and effort.
  • A Tag can be deleted and restored. When you restore a Tag, it retains its previous settings and associations.
  • A Tag can be permanently deleted by an Administrator, only once it is deleted, as with other entities in Nodinite. Use it with caution: it removes the Tag and all its associations from the system, and can't be undone.
  • New 7.12 Only the Administrators Role can rename, clear, delete, restore and permanently delete a Tag; the Web API enforces it. Adding a Tag in an item's Tags field still needs the Modify right on Articles.
  • New 7.12 An item's Tags show, read-only, wherever it is viewed: on its view page, in the View dialog, and in the header of a C4 Diagram or Diagram Set. See See an item's Tags.
graph LR TAG["fa:fa-hashtag Tag
unique name"] --> LV["fa:fa-search Log Views"] TAG --> MV["fa:fa-display Monitor Views"] TAG --> RES["fa:fa-lightbulb-on Resources"] TAG --> ART["fa:fa-newspaper Articles"] TAG --> C4["fa:fa-layer-group C4 Diagrams
and Diagram Sets"] TAG --> REPO["fa:fa-sitemap Integrations, Systems, Services,
Contracts, Message Types,
Endpoints, and Domains"] style TAG fill:#2678BD,color:#fff style LV fill:#3F827B,color:#fff style MV fill:#3F827B,color:#fff style RES fill:#3F827B,color:#fff style ART fill:#9E59BB,color:#fff style C4 fill:#9E59BB,color:#fff style REPO fill:#9E59BB,color:#fff

One Tag (blue) can label operational views and Resources (teal) and Repository Model content (purple) at the same time.

Tags menu item with the hashtag icon in the Customize section of the Web Client sidebar, next to the Tags list filtered on Contoso (7.12)
Administrators open the Tags list from Administration > Customize > Tags.

Manage Tags

New 7.12

Manage Tags puts Tags on, or takes them off, many items in one go. Tick the items in a list and choose With Selected > Manage Tags. It's the same dialog on every taggable list:

Manage Tags is only in With Selected, not in a row's Action menu. To change the Tags of one item, edit the item and use its Tags field.

The three tabs

The dialog has three tabs, each a different way to look at the same selection. Consolidate opens first.

Select three Contoso Systems, open With Selected and Manage Tags, and walk the Consolidate, Grouped, and Individual tabs, animated walkthrough (7.12)
Animated walkthrough: the same three Systems, seen three ways.

  1. In the Systems list, filter on Contoso and tick Contoso ERP, Contoso Webshop, and Contoso CRM.
  2. Open With Selected and choose Manage Tags.
  3. Consolidate lists every Tag of the selection, how many have it, and what to set it to.
  4. Open Grouped: one group per set of Tags; edit a group to change all of its Systems.
  5. Open Individual: each System with its own Tags.

Consolidate lists every Tag that any of the selected items has, with Has it (for example 2 of 3) and a Set to choice: All puts the Tag on every selected item, None takes it off every one, and As is leaves each item as it is. As is is offered only for a Tag that some, not all, of the selection have. Tags that aren't listed aren't touched. Use Add a Tag to all (Select a Tag) to put an existing Tag on the whole selection; Manage Tags never creates a Tag. Below, the dialog names the affected items.
Manage Tags dialog on the Consolidate tab for three selected Systems, with each Tag's Has it count and the All, As is, and None choices (7.12)
The Consolidate tab: nothing changes until you pick All or None for a Tag.

Grouped groups the selected items by the set of Tags they have today. Edit a group's Tags to change every item in it.
Manage Tags dialog on the Grouped tab with three groups of Systems, one per set of Tags (7.12)
The Grouped tab: one row per combination of Tags in the selection.

Individual lists each selected item with its own Tags, so you can change them one at a time.
Manage Tags dialog on the Individual tab listing Contoso ERP, Contoso Webshop, and Contoso CRM with their Tags (7.12)
The Individual tab: open an item to change its Tags.

Save or cancel

As soon as you change something, Save is enabled and Close becomes Cancel.
Manage Tags dialog on the Consolidate tab after setting one Tag to All, with Save enabled and Cancel instead of Close (7.12)
A pending change: Save saves it, Save and close saves and closes the dialog.

  • Save saves every pending change on the tab you're on, and Save and close also closes the dialog.
  • Cancel, Escape, or the header's close button asks before it throws away pending changes.
  • Only one tab holds changes at a time: switching tabs with pending changes asks first.
  • Click Maximize in the header for more room on a long selection.

In the open Manage Tags dialog, take a Tag off one System on Individual, save, then set a Tag to All on Consolidate and save and close, animated walkthrough (7.12)
Animated walkthrough: two changes on two tabs, each saved before the next.

  1. On Individual, open Contoso Webshop and take Contoso: Sales off it.
  2. Click Save.
  3. Back on Consolidate, set Contoso: Finance to All.
  4. Click Save and close. All three Systems carry Contoso: Finance, and Contoso Webshop no longer has Contoso: Sales.

Tag Operations

The following management operations exist in the Tags Overview:

Business users create and apply Tags while editing the entities they have access to; see Add or manage Tags (Getting Started).

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