Tags don't seem to show in the form

[destrecht]

Just started today, and I want to have a Tag area. I'm making a record of videos, and I want to show who's in them for searching purposes.
I found the thing about enabling Enhanced Dropdowns and did that. Now I'm lost.
I don't see anything about tags in any of the dropdowns. What do I do next?

 

[lousyfool]

Do you have an element of the plugin type "tags" in your list?
If so, then please keep reading here: http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/tags-element/

If the Joomla tags system won't work for you, you may instead opt for checkboxes, either with the plugin of the same name or based on a databasejoin. Both can also be set to allow a frontend user to add options (= quasi "tags").

 

[destrecht]

I had read that link before. That's what I want. I can't see any tags in the list, or else I'm looking in the wrong place. I've never used them in Joomla- is there something I need to turn on?

 

[destrecht]

I'm looking at this and I have no idea what it means. None. copy? to where? Where is the default located? What do they mean by a table? what is field mapping? Is there a Step by step tutorial that explains this?


By default, this element syncs in with Joomla's tags system. They can be managed via Joomla's core Tags component.

While default table is #__tags, there is also possible to choose a custom table for separate tags. But ATM it has no field mapping so the table should have at least the following fields:
`id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`parent_id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`level` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`path` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`title` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`alias` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`published` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`created_user_id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`created_time` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`language` char(7) DEFAULT NULL,
`version` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',

and indexes on (`published`,`access`), `access`,
, `path`, `alias`, `language`.

You can also just copy Joomla core tags table.

 

[troester]

Just started today

What do you mean, started with using Fabrik?
Then you should start with creating a simple Fabrik list with a simple field element to get some knowledge how Fabrik lists, forms etc. are working.
Then you can add a tags element to your list/form.
http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.ph...s/#installing-and-enabling-additional-plugins

If you want to use more then "out of the box" Fabrik features you should know about MySql, Joomla, php etc.
e.g.
#__tags: #__ is referring to your Joomla DB prefix (this is common Joomla syntax), #__tags is an existing Joomla database table which is storing Joomla tags and which you can use also in the Fabrik tags element.
If you want to have your own tags separated from the Joomla ones you must create a database table with the mentioned structure and link your tags element to this table.

There's no general "step by step" tutorial (because you can do so many different things; Fabrik is an application builder and nobody can know what is "your" application).
See WIKI, forum, youtube videos...

 

[destrecht]

I know Joomla- I've jut never used tags in it. I have a basic understanding of MySql and PHP, but I haven't had to use them in much in about 7 years so I'm pretty rusty.
I made a list and form almost immediately - http://office.kevinjackson.me/index.php/video-list
I just can't figure out the tags. Where it say CONTAINS, I want to be able to put tags in there. The names of people, places, etc. This is for cataloguing videos so we can find them easily later. We'll also use them for sound bites.
In the plugin drop list where I chose "field" I thought there would be a "tags" option.
Like this-

I went to the tutorial and enabled enhanced dropdowns and they still aren't there.

When I asked for tutorials I meant on what field mapping was. I'm not familiar with it. Google mentions forestry, but I have a feeling that isn't what I'm looking for.

I don't care if the tags are through joomla or not. I just want to have them available.

 

[troester]

As @lousyfool said "Do you have an element of the plugin type "tags" in your list?"
You must define your "contains" element with Plugin = "tags" (not ="field")

The tags element is not a Fabrik core element, you must download, install, enable it to see it in the Plugin dropdown list.
See the link in my post above:
https://fabrikar.com/forums/index.p...s/#installing-and-enabling-additional-plugins

 

[destrecht]

No the plugin "tags" isn't there.- I thought I mentioned that at first. That's actually the who reason I'm writing this.

 

[destrecht]

Ok, see what's wrong. The Tags Plugin wasn't installed. Thanks for the help.