Forum Discussion
Labels vs message tags
MichaelHolste and AnnaChu and Lana O'Brien - Curious if you could look into this for me? I'm looking for a way to tag something and see everything across the network with that tag.
- MichaelHolste
Microsoft
Hey Amy,
I've set up the label of "Bugs" for the Yammer group and Community MGMT group, which should help you follow them easier. Labels are used to a group level to help drive search results and reinforce the IA of this network, having the same labels across the entire network would be slightly confusing and a bit overwhelming (imagine the sidebar with 200+ labels to choose from).
Tags are user-generated and can be added to any convo (you can add Yammer Bugs to a post if you'd like). These are more to help categorize content. We're working with our colleagues on the Yammer team to provide an additional location for logging/discussing Yammer Bugs. More to share soon!
Thanks MichaelHolste so there is no way to get an RSS feed or email alert (if emails were working) on one label that crosses all the groups? There's no common hashtag idea like in Yammer or Twitter or Facebook? Each label within a group/board is its own URL? So Yammer/Bugs is one URL and Community/Bugs is another URL? There's no way to see where that label is used across boards?
- MichaelHolste
You are correct that labels on this platform work at a node level. If you subscribe to both of those labels, you will get an email notification each time it is used. For a particular post with a label, you can click on the label to filter by that label.
