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Adding keywords

This How-to applies to: 2.1

Associating your content with keywords, also known as 'tagging' your content

Adding keywords to content


Keywords are simply a way of adding special labels to content so that you can display and relate content items in creative ways. Some common uses of keyword-tagged content items are:

  • Can be found by the Plone site search
  • A good way of connecting content that isn't stored in the same folder
  • Used in conjunction with smart folders to build custom listings of content

Adding keywords is very straightforward:
  1. Click the properties tab on the piece of content you want to add keywords to
  2. Select one or more keywords from the Existing keywords multi-selection box
  3. You can also type one or more new keywords in the New keywords field, one keyword per line.
  4. Click Save
  5. For a quick test, type one of your keywords into the Plone search box, and your content item should now be among the items returned!

A note of caution: Make sure you are consistent about adding and using keywords, especially when multiple users are adding them. For example, you might use "database" as a keyword. Someone else might then add "data base" causing you to have two variations of the same keyword. Before long your keyword list could become unwieldy.

by samk — last modified 2007-10-10 09:12
Contributors: Jesse Snyder (NPower Seattle)
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