Community Tags VS Labels...Best Practice?

David Taylor, Jr.
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edited November 21 in English Forum

Ok, so I regularly use Community Tags for resources that have not really been touched by Faithlife yet in regards to tagging. I also use Labels for some "Private Datasets" my question is what is best practice, Tags vs Labels since Community Tags changes resources for everyone and not just me?

Thoughts?

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,133

    They serve very different purposes so my view of "best practice" is to use the one that fits.

    • Community tags provide the basic BK (Bible Knowledgebase) links where Faithlife has not. Use this tool for tagging and help everyone.
    • Labels (1) with Sermon labels if you add a Label with FL names and attributes, the sermon will appear in the Sermon guide section. I strongly believe this is how all Faithlife labels should work (see User coding of system labels | Faithlife I would like to see these treated as community tags i.e. everyone Benefits 
    • Labels (2) user defined labels - these are the solution whenever you want to maintain a searchable piece (or pieces) of data attached to the selected text.

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,682

    Neither truly make up for a lack of tagging by FL since they require a different Search. But a Basic Search with Community Tags is not restricted, and they are shared whilst a Search for Labels can be restricted (to a collection or resource) and they are private.

    I much prefer Labels.

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