Tags

Create and manage product tags that provide cross-category filtering, SEO-friendly browse pages, and sidebar navigation on the storefront.

Tags let you organize products with flexible, cross-category labels. Unlike categories, which provide a strict hierarchy, tags allow a single product to appear on multiple browse pages without duplicating it. Each tag generates an SEO-friendly URL on the storefront (e.g., /tag/business-cards) with its own page content managed through the CMS. Tags can be nested one level deep using the "Browse By" parent relationship, and they can optionally appear in the storefront sidebar for customer navigation.

This page is found under Tags in the Unified Admin sidebar.

View Tags

From your Unified Admin, go to Tags.
The tag list displays all tags in a paginated, searchable grid.
Use the Search panel to filter tags by name.
The Published and Sidebar checkboxes can be toggled directly in the grid without opening the edit dialog. Changes are saved immediately.
To preview a tag's storefront page, click the action menu and choose Preview. This opens the tag's SEO URL in a new browser tab. Preview is disabled for unpublished tags.

Column	Description
Id	Unique tag identifier.
Name	Display name of the tag. This name appears in the storefront sidebar, product detail pages, and breadcrumb navigation.
Browse By	The parent tag name, if this tag is nested under another tag. Blank for top-level tags.
Friendly Url	The SEO-friendly URL path generated for this tag (e.g., `tag/business-cards`). Used by the storefront's SEO URL rewriting engine.
Published	Interactive checkbox. When checked, the tag page is accessible on the storefront. Unpublished tags are hidden from customers but remain in the admin. Toggling this updates the tag immediately.
Sidebar	Interactive checkbox. When checked, the tag appears in the storefront's sidebar navigation. Toggling this updates the tag immediately.
Action	Menu with Edit, Preview, and Delete options.

Tag Actions

Action	Description
Edit	Opens the Add/Edit Tag dialog to modify the tag's name, parent, published state, and sidebar visibility.
Preview	Opens the tag's storefront page in a new browser tab. Disabled when the tag is unpublished.
Delete	Permanently deletes the tag, its SEO page record, and its CMS content. Product-to-tag assignments are also removed. A confirmation dialog appears before deletion.

Add/Edit Tag

Tags are created and edited through a dialog that opens when you click Edit from the action menu (for existing tags) or via the shared Add Tag component used elsewhere in the admin.

Field	Description
CMS Page Link	Read-only. Displays the page variable expression (e.g., `<%= PageLink(123) %>`) for referencing this tag's page in theme templates. Only shown for existing tags.
Name	The display name for the tag. When creating a new tag, PrintNow automatically generates an SEO-friendly URL from this name (e.g., "Business Cards" becomes `tag/business-cards`).
Browse By	Dropdown to select a parent tag, creating a one-level nesting hierarchy. Options include "None" (top-level) and all existing top-level tags. If this tag already has child tags, the Browse By dropdown is disabled to prevent multi-level nesting.
Published	Checkbox to control whether the tag page is visible on the storefront. New tags are created unpublished by default. Disabled (greyed out) for brand-new tags until first save.
Sidebar	Checkbox to control whether this tag appears in the storefront's tag sidebar navigation.

Import / Export

Tags support bulk import and export via Excel spreadsheets.

Export: Downloads all tags as an XLSX spreadsheet. Use this to back up your tag configuration or prepare a bulk edit.

Import: Upload an XLSX file to create or update tags in bulk. The file must use the .xlsx format. After processing, any warnings (e.g., duplicate names, missing fields) are displayed in a list within the import dialog.

How Tags Work

Each tag in PrintNow consists of two linked records:

A Tag record (dbo.Tags) storing the tag name, parent relationship, and display order
A SeoCore record (dbo.SeoCores, contentType 5) storing the SEO URL, published state, sidebar flag, and meta information

When a tag is created, PrintNow also creates a Content record for the tag's CMS page content, which can be edited through the Tag Content page.

Products are assigned to tags via the TagsMap table, which maps product IDs to tag IDs. This assignment is done from the product edit page's Tags sidebar panel.

Associations

Print Store

Area	Effect
Tag browse pages	Each published tag generates a storefront page at its SEO-friendly URL (e.g., `/tag/business-cards`). The page displays all products assigned to that tag via the `TagsMap`, along with the tag's CMS content and page title.
SEO URL rewriting	The storefront's `Global.asax` resolves tag SEO URLs to the `onlineproducts.aspx` page with the tag ID parameter. This provides clean, search-engine-friendly URLs for tag pages.
Sidebar navigation	Tags with the Sidebar flag enabled appear in the `TagSideBar` control on the storefront. The sidebar displays top-level tags and their child tags, filtered to only show tags that have products assigned. Clicking a tag in the sidebar navigates to that tag's browse page.
Product detail pages	The `ProductTags` control on product detail pages displays all tags assigned to that product as clickable links, allowing customers to discover related products.
Breadcrumb navigation	When a customer lands on a tag browse page, the breadcrumb trail displays the tag name, allowing them to clear the tag filter and return to the full product listing.
Product edit page	On the Products edit page, the right sidebar includes a Tags panel where admins can assign or remove tags from a product using a dropdown and grid. This creates or deletes `TagsMap` records.

Products — assign tags to products from the product edit sidebar
Categories — use categories for hierarchical organization alongside tags
Tag Content — edit the CMS page content displayed on tag browse pages
Collections — another way to group products for targeted catalog access