AEM 6.0 Tagging Count Usage

[Gdubz-57m2mu]

I created a new component called "tagTest.jsp" and its dialog is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jcr:root xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" jcr:primaryType="cq:Dialog" xtype="dialog"> <items jcr:primaryType="cq:Widget" xtype="tabpanel"> <items jcr:primaryType="cq:WidgetCollection"> <default jcr:primaryType="cq:Widget" title="Basic" xtype="panel"> <items jcr:primaryType="cq:WidgetCollection"> <tags jcr:primaryType="cq:Widget" allowBlank="false" cls="cq-propsdialog-tags" fieldLabel="Tags" name="./cq:tags" xtype="tags" /> </items> </default> </items> </items> </jcr:root>

A simple CQ.tagging.TagInputField, which stores a String[] of authored tags in the default "cq:tags" property. Slap the component on a page and author a tag on it, then when I head on over to http://localhost:4502/tagging and click the "Count usage" button, I don't get a single number in the "Count" column. I did a search through the forum first and saw this question which was "answered" but not very thoroughly: http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manage...

Do I need to register my component to be included in this count? Is that even possible? How do I utilize the OOTB Tagging panel's Count usage in custom component implementations?

Thanks for any and all help!

[smacdonald2008]

The reason why Lokesh answered that thread in this manner is because there is no community article that shows this use case (or covered in docs). Therefore, a more general response was given as opposed to referencing a working example in a community article. 

This use case looks like an important one to capture in an AEM community article. I can help you - but i need to see your code. Did you use a backed service that uses an AEM API to get this count? 

Send me your code (both front end and backend - Java if you have it) and I will look into this.

I cannot figure out your logic by looking at the structure of the dialog. Place your ZIP (of the /App that uses the component) into a Dropbox URL and send me that URL at scottm@adobe.com. We will get this addressed. 

[Gdubz-57m2mu]

Hi Scott,

This was strictly an example I setup to test why the count usage wasn't working in any of our project's custom components that utilize the out-of-the-box tags xtype. I can try to package up the component but the Java logic is in our project bundle. Do you want me to extract the java and place it in a scriptlet in the component's JSP before sending or should I just paste everything in code snippets here? It's all pretty straightforward/simple stuff.

Thanks for the speedy reply!

- Greg

[Gdubz-57m2mu · Accepted solution]

For reference to anyone else who may find this thread. The Tag Administration site's (http://localhost:4502/tagging) Count usage button appears to only count tags that are used in the "Tags/Keywords" dialog of a page's properties.

Per Adobe's recommendation, if you need to count the usage of tags used in a custom component's TagInputField ("tags" xtype), the best way would be to create a Sling Servlet or a service to fetch that information using the TagManager API. Scott (smacdonald2008) put together a great Helpx article on how to do just that:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/tagmanager-api-search-tags.html