Creating and Managing Tags

Tags are a useful way to label and group information within ServiceTrade so that they may be retrieved quickly for various purposes. Tags can be applied to customers, locations, jobs, assets, quotes, deficiencies, and invoices.

This article will guide you in creating and managing tags within your ServiceTrade account.

Prerequisites

The ability to add or edit tags is driven by a User's assigned activities.

• Only Account Admin users may access the dedicated Tag Management tool.
• If you only have the View Tags activity in the Role(s) assigned to you, you will not be able to change tags.
• If you have the Edit Tags activity you can add or remove tags, but may only choose from the existing tags already in your account.
• If you have the Manage Tags activity you can create new tags by adding them to any taggable entity (company, location, quote, etc.) in your account. Then that tag will be selectable as an existing tag for all other users in your account.  

Creating Tags

1. Navigate to the entity's page (Location, Invoice, etc.) you wish to tag. The steps below will be the same regardless of the entity type.
2. Click the Add Tags icon/text below the address information.
3. A new text field will open where you can enter your desired tag title.
   • Note: When selecting a tag, remember that tags have a maximum size of 32 characters and may contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores.
4. Once your tag is entered, click the gray Done button. Your newly-created tag will now appear on the page. 

Notice that the link's text has changed from Add Tags to Edit Tags. Once a page contains one or more tags, Edit Tags will be displayed on the page.

Adding Existing Tags

Adding an existing tag to a page will follow the same steps and rules listed above, with one minor exception. 

1. Click on Edit Tags and begin typing the name of the already-created tag.
2. Existing tags appear in the drop-down menu below the text field.
3. Click the name of the desired tag, and it will be added to the page. 

Tag Management Tool

Available exclusively to Account Admins, the Tag Management tool allows admins to view a complete list of tags currently in their account and to quickly rename, merge, or delete these tags.

1. Access the tool by clicking the My Account button in the navigation bar.
2. Then select the Tags link below. A new page will appear with the list of current tags within your account. To the right of the tag name, you will see the type and number of pages associated with those tags.
   
3. Here you can rename or merge tags by clicking the corresponding links, or you may delete a tag entirely by clicking the trash can icon.
   
   
4. Clicking Rename will open a new window where you can type the desired text for the new tag.
5. Click the blue Rename Tag button to complete the process.
6. Clicking the Merge button will open a new dialog window. This tool will replace the tag from the row where you clicked Merge and replace that tag with the one selected from the dropdown menu.
   

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