Well, I guess this is it. With the Tag Cloud Control we’ve taken Tags Everywhere! as far as we can take it for now. I think we’re pretty darn close to a truly “tags everywhere” environment in Sueetie. The only place I can think of where tags are not present is Sueetie Marketplace, and Marketplace isn’t a part of the Sueetie Package, at least it won’t be in Version 1.4. Still I like to be complete, so look for tags on Marketplace products then onto other cool stuff I can’t tell you about yet.
The New Sueetie Tag Cloud Control
Since Sueetie's "Tags Everywhere!" architecture extends across all applications we needed a robust tag cloud control to get the most of our tags, and the Sueetie Tag Control is as easy to use as it is robust. It generates tag clouds like those seen on the site home page.
Tag Clouds by Application Type
The Sueetie Tag Cloud Control supports the generation of tags for all site tags in a single cloud (like on the Sueetie.com home page), tags by application (a specific blog, for instance) or by application type (blogs, which would include all blogs.) To make it easy to select the application type the Sueetie Tag Cloud Control provides a application selection through Intellisense using the TagCloudContents property.
Tag Clouds by Application
You can also display tags by application. For instance, you may want to display tags for an individual blog, or you may have multiple media galleries and you want to show tags for a specific gallery. To display tags by application you would use the ApplicationID property when using the Tag Cloud Control.
Application IDs are displayed on the Applications Listing in Sueetie Administration.
Controlling the number of tags displayed in the cloud
You can change the number of tags displayed in the cloud by using the CloudTagNum property.
Styling the Tag Cloud
The Sueetie Tag Cloud control uses the tag cloud generation logic found in BlogEngine.NET. It creates a UL html control with each tag element an inline LI html control with a specific class based on the tag's weight, or its number of uses compared to the maximum tag use count. The classes assigned to the LI html control range from smallest to biggest. You'll see that in this code excerpt generating each tag's weight, i.e., its LI class.
The default class assigned to the UL html control is "ulTags." You can change that by using the CssClass property in the Sueetie Tag Cloud control.