Tags help you enrich and better classify products with attributes that are meaningful to your organization. Tagging products as you add them – and especially as you add them to your organization’s Library – provides everyone with a relevant, useful product assessment specific to your firm’s needs and sustainability goals.
Organizations have different tag curation preferences, so Project Builder & Library doesn’t enforce specific tag policies other than the following:
- Account Admins manage which Members can tag products.
- All subscriptions include Good, Better and Best as default tags. These tags cannot be edited or removed from the overall set of tags.
- Tag names are limited to 40 characters.
Ways to use tags
If your organization doesn’t already have tag policies for other applications, consider one or more of the following approaches:
- Allow only a limited set of Members (or even only one person) to tag products.
- Create default tags for use in any Project or Library so that people tagging products don’t have to start from scratch. Sample tags might include:
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Building types
- Affordable housing
- Historic renovation
- Retrofit
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Material attributes
- Formaldehyde-free
- Low-cost
- Recycled content
- Reused material
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Laws & regulations
- Build America, Buy America (BABA)
- Buy Clean CA
- Buy Clean MA
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Building types
- Set tag name and/or color conventions. For example, make all client name tags light blue, all material tags light green, etc.
- Tip: use a category name at the beginning of each tag to help people find them more quickly on the Tags page or when using typeahead while adding a tag to a product. For example, preface all client name tags with “Client:” so that people can start searching for the word “client” and see all available tags in that category.
- Regular pruning and tag cleanup on the Tags page.