Overview

How to create a taxonomy that lets users filter archive content by tags in the City metadata field.

Enabling the taxonomy

First, go to Site Configuration in FotoWeb, open the Metadata sheet under Site settings, and enable taxonomies for the City field. You also need to enter a plural name, which will be used as the taxonomy's header in the user interface ("Cities")

Next, you would enable taxonomy navigation on the archive you wish to use it with: 

Open the archive's properties, go to the Metadata tab, and enable Taxonomy navigation. Then, select the City field to use that taxonomy with the archive.

Defining taxonomy content

Now, log on to FotoWeb with your user account. Note that you must have Manage taxonomy privileges to be able to edit taxonomy content.

Since there is a fair chance that the list of cities can become quite long and hard to navigate, we'll create a taxonomy that starts at the Country level; that is, we'll create a node at the top that contains country names and define cities per country. That should make it easier for users to navigate.

The country node itself will only be a navigation container - users can see and click it, but clicking it will only display the cities listed underneath. Then, when a user clicks one or more cities, the actual filtering will be applied.

Start by selecting Add term, then enter a country name. In this example, we will use England. When the term appears in the list, point to the entry and click the pencil icon to open its properties.

Then, in the access properties, make sure you remove Query and Set permissions. This ensures that the England node will simply be a Navigation container for users. Select OK.

Next, click on the England node to enter it. Then click on Add term to add a city to the England node.

Do this three times, filling in the names of three cities, such as London, Manchester, and Liverpool.

Now you're ready to start using the taxonomy: The Cities taxonomy starts with England - click it to display the three cities you made. You'll notice that nothing changes in the grid of assets. Now, select one of the cities. The filter is applied, and all files that match the criterion are displayed. You can then tick another city and display the combined result of those two filters.