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Traction shines when it comes to categorizing your content. Labels (commonly called tags) are used to organize or describe information within and across project spaces. Social Tagging, with permission filtering is enabled as users in each project can define their own labels, and apply them to content (pages or comments) in any project they can see. And content can be viewed by any combination of labels, with permission filters and across any time slice.

Labels might be used to express:

Priority (e.g. Headline or Priority 1)
Content Type (e.g. Meeting or Issue)
Status (e.g. Open, To Do or Done)
Category (e.g. Car, Truck, Weblog, KM)

You can use labels together (e.g. Issue and To Do) and use sections, drill down navigation, or search to access a cross-section of content.

Labels may be applied at the article title level, and even at the paragraph level. Few content management systems offer that level of granular description. You can also assign labels to comments.

Viewing Content by Label

Here's an example showing how labels work. In this case, the FAQ label in an Engineering Project was clicked. You can see that there are three matches. The On this Page navigator in the lower left allows you to refine the view using another category label that the FAQ articles contain. The Add to This Topic button in the upper right makes it easy to add a new article labeled FAQ and it will show up in this area.

Label / Tag Cloud by Date

The count shown next to each label tells you how frequently its been used on article pages and comments. With Calendar Navigation, you can click to any date range and see the updated label count for that time slice, then navigate into the content. This allows you to see which labels are "important" over all time, or in a current time slice such as this month, this quarter, or this year.

Label / Tag Cloud by TeamPage FAST Search Module Result

With the optional Traction TeamPage FAST Search Module, a tag cloud (and other entity "clouds" for authors, projects, keywords, companies, names and locations) is provided for each search result. The Search result (and resulting tag cloud) is permission filtered and can be time sensitive.

Label / Tag Drill Down with "On This Page"

After clicking a label, you can use the "On This Page" feature to see what labels are used, and how frequently, in combination with the selected label. Clicking one of the labels listed in the "On This Page" panel displays the boolean result, and a refined "On This Page" label list.

To make browsing in multi-entry views easier, you can minimize or reduce the visible content of individual articles by clicking its minimizing icon...

... Or you can switch view options for all entries on the page by changing Brief Content to the Details view:

Viewing Content by Label Added or Removed Date

You can view content by label based on the date order in which the pages were published, or you may view them based on the date a given label was added or removed. So, if you publish an article and label it Requirement and assign a To Do label as well, then you can later view the Requirement articles based on when the To Do label was removed and the Done label was added. This way, you can track progress of a project, or better understand how categories have changed over time.

Paragraph Level Labels

You may want to assign one or more labels to a paragraph to call it out as important to a certain category, or for further action. In this example, the user will add the Question and To Do labels to the 2nd paragraph. Simply right click on the 2nd paragraph to raise the context menu for that paragaph and select change labels:

The Change Labels dialogue pops up, and the Question and To Do labels from the HR project are chosen:

And finally, the article is updated with the new labels applied:

Quick Label Changes

The context menu shown above also provides easy access to add or remove labels as well as to choose Actions, such as "remove Priority 1 and Priority 2, then add Priority 3" which the administrator defines.

To Do and Done are special case labels that allow you to easily click the checkbox to toggle back and forth between To Do and Done states.