Planning for tag inheritance

When choosing the tags to include in the configuration of an Advanced Search or Content Tagged List content item, you must account for the effect of implied relationships between parent and child tags in the tag hierarchy. A tag's position in the tag hierarchy creates an underlying relationship that is not specifically displayed in the Related Tags section: parent tags are implicitly related to their children tags with a more broadly defines relationship, and children tags are implicitly related to their parent tag with a further defines relationship. This means that:

• The pre-filtered result set of a basic or advanced search includes all published content records that are tagged with any descendant of the tag that is matched by the search keywords.
• The pre-filtered result set of a rendered Content Tagged List content item also includes published content records that are tagged with any descendent of a tag that is specified in the configuration of the Content Tagged List.
• The content of the Items by Tag Report (in Reports > Content reports) does not list published content records that are tagged with any descendant of each tag in the report.
• See the following articles for more information:
  • Developer articles on iMISCommunity
  • Microsoft Developer Network
  • Telerik Documentation
  • Search Engine Watch