topic Re: Help with tag management in ArcGIS Online Questions

Help with tag management

SarahHollier — Fri, 19 May 2017 10:48:54 GMT

Hi,

My organisation has a number of bad tags (eg spelling errors, typos) which I would like to update. Is there any way to get a list of all tags used within my organisation so I can try and tidy these up. I have looked at the geojobe admin tools but this seems to need to know what all the bad tags are, is there any way just to get a list of all tags and update the ones needed? Is there a workflow anyone has followed that I could even potentially send out to serial bad taggers to fix their tags.

Thanks

Sarah

Re: Help with tag management

JayantaPoddar — Fri, 19 May 2017 10:58:33 GMT

I am not sure of any such script/tool.

Just sharing a blog on Using Tags Effectively, that you can share with other members with your organization.

Maybe you could ask the owners of the map services to cross-verify the tags and change them wherever required.

Re: Help with tag management

XanderBakker — Fri, 19 May 2017 11:21:03 GMT

Maybe the GEO Jobe Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online can help with that task: Video Link : 2856

Re: Help with tag management

SarahHollier — Fri, 19 May 2017 13:36:40 GMT

Thank you both for your replies, I have looked at the GEO Jobe Admin tools and unfortunately it just allows you to remove or add tags not update ones so I need to get a register of where all the bad tags are so I can update those ones.

I have found a way to export a list of all items in my organisation using the Geo Jobe tools and then mess about with it in excel but it is extremely clunky. Hopefully future releases for AGOL will include an option as an administrator to review and update all tags used by their users.

Re: Help with tag management

XanderBakker — Fri, 19 May 2017 13:57:50 GMT

You could post an idea here in GeoNet with that idea.

Re: Help with tag management

SarahHollier — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:34:40 GMT

https://community.esri.com/ideas/11011 there already is an idea posted, hopefully one day it is implemented.

Re: Help with tag management

SethLewis1 — Mon, 22 May 2017 23:22:10 GMT

Late to this discussion but if you're an admin to your portal, check out ArcGIS Item Information

It's a prototype application so YMMV but I've used it to clean up our portal's tags in a fairly efficient manner.

Re: Help with tag management

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Mon, 22 May 2017 23:58:53 GMT

Seth, thanks for sharing this. I just checked out the prototype app (just FYI, on my iPad using Safari), and it works nice. My first attempts using the windows more on the right side did not seem to work, but once I found my tag one the left I needed to change, it worked slick. It was very easy to see one of my tags with a clear misspelling. I was able to change the tag across multiple items and change once. Thanks again!

Re: Help with tag management

DanCamboia — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:50:05 GMT

Seth, how did you get it to access your portal?

Re: Help with tag management

SethLewis1 — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:42:09 GMT

Dan -

We were using named user accounts last year so I didn't need to enter a portal name. I don't know how it would work with SAML/ADFS logins.

Re: Help with tag management

DanCamboia — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:31:41 GMT

Seth, thanks for the quick reply. I don't see how to get this to access my portal when the url for ArcGIS Item Information goes to an esri site and the sign in dialog is for AGOL. I'm using named user accounts with portal for ArcGIS. Any help appreciated.

Re: Help with tag management

SethLewis1 — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:35:44 GMT

I misunderstood your original question Dan. To get it working with your Portal you'd need to host the source code yourself and tweak the app's logic to talk with your Portal instance.

The prototype's source code is available here:

GitHub - jgrayson-apl/ItemInfo: Inspect ArcGIS.com items based on user folder, tag or group.

Re: Help with tag management

DanielShaffer2 — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:46:20 GMT

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you, Seth!
Using ArcGIS Online, straight up. Really easy and effective tool

Re: Help with tag management

WorcesterGTSS — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:32:31 GMT

I noticed that the ArcGIS Item Information tool referenced in this thread is no longer at the link (the ESRI apl site). Anyone know how to access it elsewhere aside from hosting the source code myself?

Samara

Re: Help with tag management

Charlie_Kaufman — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:28:34 GMT

There is one way to get a list of all the Tags in your Org. If you generate an Item Report, one of the columns in the outputted CSV file is 'Tags'. It will take a lot of hand-jamming an cleaning but you will have your list of all your tags.