While everyone else right now seems to be blogging about SharePoint 2010, I decided to blog a little bit about the previous product, SharePoint 2007. Recently, I had to develop a webpart that shows Tags from either a Site collection level or subsite level. I will give you the code but firstly, here is how it works: Assumining that you already have a library/list that has a choice field called Category(it can have any name), the webpart will search the site collection/subsite(depending on the scope you choose) for all columns that are named 'Category', and when found, will pull out the selected choices for display. Remember that this is a choice column, meaning that the choices will be repeatitive, and therefore, the more repeative the choices are, the bigger the font size of the Tag name will appear on the webpart. Secondly, the tags will get random colors on page load, while at the same time will be hyperlinked, and when you click on a tag, it will be passed to the Search and ...
Data and Advanced Analytics. Formerly SharePoint.