Tags

With only file names and folder hierarchies, finding files is very difficult unless you know the name and/or location of the file under question.

A central tagging system that works closely with your naming conventions makes filtering down your search to quickly find what you need very easy.

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Managing Tags

To manage your tags, go to the Tags view by clicking the link in the top bar.

Here, you can create, edit and manage all your workspace tags. You can also click a tag to see a filtered view of all files using that tag.

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Syncing Tags

While using the desktop app, any changes you make to a tag places it into the push table to sync with your cloud workspace. If you assign a tag to a file, that file is also included in the push table for syncing.

When mudstack fetches any new tag changes from the cloud, these tags will be available to you locally.

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Auto Tagging

If your team has a well designed file naming convention, then you can use mudstack’s auto tagging to do some of the work.

Create your tag system before uploading content to mudstack. As long as a tag matches a string in the filename separated by a ., -, _ or , the file will automatically get tagged on upload.

For example, if the tags Red and Sword already existed in the workspace, files named:

• Red_sword-3.png,
• Red-Sword_final_final.fbx,
• red sword wip.ma,
• RED.SWORD.BIG.ztl

etc, would all get automatically tagged with both Red and Sword on upload.

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Managing Tags on Files

From any search view, you can select one or more files and add/remove tags to/from the selection:

1. Right click after selecting files and choose Manage Tags, or
2. Use the right sidebar to either remove tags from the selection or click the Add tags button to add new tags.

You can also add tags to a file from the file details view by clicking on the file info tab on the right sidebar.