Content tags are words or short phrases that you can add to articles or community posts to group and connect different types of content, making it easy for your users to quickly find related content across their help centers. You can use article settings to add content tags to individual articles, or you can use the centralcontent tag management pageto create and add content tags to articles or to manage existing content tags. You cannot add content tags in bulk.
Unlike labels, which improve search relevance and are used as search keywords, content tags are not searchable nor do they boost search relevance. Instead, content tags let content authors manually create collections of related content across different sections, topics, and content types. End users can click the content tag displayed on an article or post to open a search page for that content collection. They can click the links within each collection to quickly find the information they need in your help center, regardless of where the content sits in your content hierarchy.
Before you can use content tags, you must download the latest Copenhagen theme or update your custom theme to enable content tags. SeeGetting started with content tags.
What are content tags and how are they used?
内容标签descriptive terms that you can assign to articles and posts to group them by a common attribute. When you add a content tag to an article or community post, that tag appears in theRelated tosection at the bottom of the article or post. Users can click the tag to view a search page displaying all other content in your help center with the same tag.
For example, this image shows an article with three assigned tags: federated search, API, and search crawler.
When the article is published, the content tags appear as clickable links under theRelated tosection of the article.
Users can click the content tags to open a search results page that shows all help center content with the same tag.
Getting started with content tags
If you have never used content tags before, here are some considerations and possible theme updates to make before you begin.
- (If necessary) Download the latest Copenhagen theme or update your custom theme to enable content tags. Content tags are available by default instandard themesand themes that were customized after October 19, 2022. If your help center was created before October 19, 2022 and uses acustomized theme, you need to update your custom theme to use content tags.
- Enable content tagging for your community.By default, content tagging on community posts is disabled, meaning that end users cannot add content tags to their posts. If content tags have been applied to posts or articles, end users will still be able to see and click those tags on published content, but they cannot add them. When content tagging on community posts is enabled, end users can view and apply any content tag in your application to their community post. Before you enable content tags on your community content, make sure that you approve of all community users viewing and using the content tags you define. To allow end users to apply content tags to posts seeAllowing users to add content tags to community posts.
- Understand who has permission to create, add, and remove content tags. Guide admins and article authors can create content tags in articles. Only Guide admins and agents can create content tags in community posts.
Best practices for using content tags
The following best practices explain how to make the most out of using content tags to streamline your end user experience:
- Naming- When you write an article or post, try to think about what main ideas, concepts, features, or products it covers. Content tags are intended to simplify search, so when you create a tag, ask yourself if this name can be understood and reused by others. It also helps to use short names. Content tags are case insensitive so if you have a content tag titled “test” then you cannot call a new tag “TEST”.
- Limit content tags:Although it is possible to add up to 25 tags to an article or post, you should only use 5 to 7 content tags. The purpose of content tags is to surface related content across your help center and community. If you place too many content tags on an article or post, it will be cluttered and difficult to use.
- Keep tags current:Review content tags once in a while, look for spelling and grammar mistakes, duplication, and low usage. You can easily fix mistakes by updating the name of a tag. For tags with low usage, it is important to check if a name is meaningful and understood by others. In this case, consider renaming or even removing a content tag.
- Merging content tags: Resolve errors in tag names or remove duplicate tags by merging content tags. For example, if you have two content tags named "content tag" and "content_tag", you can merge the incorrect tag into the correct tag. When you merge a tag, content associated with the merged tag is added to the tag you are merging into. The merged tag is then deleted from your account. SeeManaging content tags.
28 Comments
Hey,
First of all, thank you for adding this very helpful feature!
Second, I have a question: How do these tags react in multilingual Help Centers? Can we add different tags to different translations of an article? Or will the tags always appear in the default language, even when viewing the article in a different language than the default one?
I'm just curious to know how the tags will adjust (or not) to different languages.
Thank you in advance!
HiLaura,
The content tags in Guide will be applied to articles on the article level, not on the translation level. Yes, the tags will appear the same when viewing the article in a different language.
The focus on singular language for the content tag and therefore needing to create new tags for each language makes this a bit less useful. Would love to see labels and content tags have translation management at a Guide wide level. As well as being able to manage for user misspellings.
Hi,
Where can I find the information about See the "Enabling content tags in your theme" section of theHelp center templating cookbook? I tried to find the section, but couldn't.
Thanks!
Hello,
In our kb we've been using Labels to 'tag' articles. How is this functionality different to labels please, and what is the suggested optimal use for Labels vs Related to content tags? Thanks!
HiMonika Kanomata,
You can find the information in theAdding content tags to articles and postssection within the Help center templating cookbook.
Thanks!
Hiteenage engineering education,
Content tags do not influence search relevance and cannot be used as a search keyword. This feature provides an alternative grouping that allows you to create a shared theme across different sections, topics, and content types.
For example, when we have an article regarding refunds, you may want to add labels such as refund, returns, etc. to improve the search experience. Then, to categorize your articles, you can add a content tag such as "billing".
Hi!
How/where we could find code to add code to our theme to enable content tags?
Thanks!
/Rita
Hi!
Is there a way to edit or delete the tags that are added by mistake? Since they are end-user facing, I want to make it look nicer - for example, there is a tag "zendesk" but want to change it to "Zendesk".
Thanks!
HiAya
Yes if you go to "Guide Admin -> Arrange -> Manage content tags" then you can click a content tag and rename it in the side-panel to the right.
Questions/Concerns on Content tags:
Content tags is a great way for our customers to find a group of related articles in the KB. But, we have some concerns.
1) How many content tags can be created in the overall list of content tags?
2) Is there a way to view all content tags (we want to remove any that are misspelled or unused)? We need to have a UI to manage this and not have to use the API!
3) Is there a bulk action to apply selected content tags to a group of documents?
4) Is there a way to transfer article labels to become content tags in a group of documents?
5) Using Explore, is there a way to report on all documents and get the list of content tags on those documents?
6) Is there a way in Explore to find all documents that have a particular content tag?
Same question as Rita...we have a custom theme so where's the code/recipe to enable this manually? Thanks!
HiMary Paez
As always some excellent questions. I'll try my best to answer and hope your concerns go away.
HiAllison Sargent
You can find custom theme instructions in our theming cookbook, the new sectionAdding content tags to articles and posts.
Wow! Thank you Casper for the Arrange Content --> Content tags UI so we can better manage them.
QUESTION: When do you come out with a similar one for Labels???? (LOL)
Another enhancement request is to offer a way to export those content tags into a csv or excel file. Same with Guide admin when you get a list of documents (this has been a request for quite some time).
Management of articles/content/labels/updates is important. So, #5 is for management purposes. I will get requests from our coaches and KDEs and sometimes Managers. It is giving them the flexibility to manage their content.
QUESTION: Will you be extending the 200 content tag limit? We see a big need for using these but we have many products and they are all very different in the medical field (sales/marketing vs patient vs healthcare provider) so we see for different products we might need more. We use an Explore "Search" report to list search criteria. This helps us determine what words/phrases customers are using to find out content. Some of these terms are used for content tags.
HiMary Paez
Regarding converting a label to a content tag, we've gone ahead and created an example script that uses our API to do this. You canread the README and download the script on GitHub!
We don't plan to create a central management UI for labels. I can try and explain a bit ... I think that once you start using content tags you will see that it is starting to also clarify the future purpose of labels. Over time we are likely going to rename labels into "Search keywords" or something like that, because that's what it will be: A search keyword booster. Of course you will still also be able to create internal article lists based on labels/keywords. But for end-user facing lists and filters, it will be content tags. This also means that in the space of keywords you'll see less central management and more adhoc SEO-style optimization of the individual pieces of content.
Regarding the 200 tag limit: I do think we can extend this limit. We introduced it to shape customer behaviour a bit. Think about the fact that this will be a public-facing tag list. It's likely that your end users can't comprehend it if it gets too big.
Content tags are pretty cool but we stumbled upon a small issue that could be addressed: The list of possible tags to select from only shows the first 20 entries and it is not clear that there are more. You could either show all tags when clicking on the chevron/arrow or add a visual clue or simply a note implying that there are more and people are just supposed to start typing. This is not obvious.
Thanks for this, where would I see low or high usage of the content tags?
And also to add on toMary Paezquestion about the limit of tags and your responseKasper Sorensen:
Is this the case if we have multibrand? Is it 200 per brand then? I will need much more than 200.
I've implemented the new Copenhagen theme on our knowledge center and the behavior on our pages is as you describe when being logged in.
If you are not logged in the text (
tag in html) "Related to" is NOT displaying. The tags itself (with the link) are present.
Is this "normal behavior"? I'd expect the text "Related to" to be present in any case (logged in or not)
Regards
Hello,
Regarding the limits it is 200 content tags per account.
We are working on fixing missing "Related to" text. It will be above content tags on all article and post pages.
We have to hold off on using content tags at this time since we can not restrict who can add them to our articles. We have a designated team of KCS coaches that came up with the list of tags and want to add them to articles. However, what prevents us from using it is that anyone can go in and add/remove them. We want to control the list of tags that appear on the portal and don't want to have any incorrect tags appear on our portal.
Does Zendesk have plans to restrict the management of content tags to a designated group of users (eg: KCS coaches, content team, admins only)???
HiMary Paez,
Thank you for your feedback. Only agents with publishing permissions can add or remove content tags from articles. It works similar to labels, you can check labels permissions inCreating management permissions to define agent editing and publishing rights
同时只有管理员能访问内容的助教gs management where they can remove content tags from your Zendesk instance or merge few into one.
Is there any plans to add Content Tags to the Zendesk ROLE theme? As a default content tags are not shown in this theme, which is kinda weird considering it is a Zendesk theme. This theme also does not permit code editing, which is annoying, so cannot even add the code to the theme.
I am trying to rename a content tag from "approved email" to "Approved Email". but I get an error.
为了做到这一点我必须1)删除标签2) recreate it. However, all the docs tagged with that content tag will have the old one removed. Seems an "EDIT" function should allow us to change the case of the tag but it is not allowing it very easily. Any idea why?
Am able to rename "claim" to "Claims". Does this mean it updated all the articles it is added to?
HiMary Paez- The merge content tags feature allows you to create a new tag (for example "Approved Email"), and then merge the old tag (for example "approved email") with the new one. When you merge content tags, the original content tag is deleted and content associated with it is moved to the merged tag. You can read about this inManaging content tags (Merging).
Hi,
I have a question. When I click on a content tag, the page loads with a title "n results for "" in All Categories".
Could you please advise why it's not showing the tag in the quotes, and just empty quotes? Is this a bug or do I need to change anything in the theme?
Thank you!
Here's a screenshot:
HiTanya,
Could you please open a ticket with Zendesk so we can look at your particular case?
HiTetiana Gron
Thank you. I have now. Will try to resolve this with the support.
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