This plugin allow users to follow tags. Users can select any tag which is filtered and displayed in the Activity Stream. The user is notified when new content is matching.

Features

• add 'My Tags' to the Activity tabs
• define tags you want to follow direct on the Activity-page
• Tag-input-fields with user friendly autocompletion
• User-notification for new matched content
• language support en, de included
• Tested on version Elgg 1.8.16

Installation

Copy the plugin-folder 'follow_tags' (if applicable delete the suffix '-master') in your '/mod' directory and activate the plugin.

Admin-settings

• set optinal tab on river-page "My tags"
• minimum number of characters a user must type before a search is performed
• tag-threshold for better quality of the autocomplete-selection
• Total number of tags
• secure Backspace
• allow/disallow case-sensitive Tags (for preventing duplicated Tags)
• allow/disallow spaces in tags
• additional default Tags for autocomplete

User-settings

• User can select if they want to get notification

ToDo

• prevent double notification on Groups (only Group-Notification)
• better Ajax-support for autocomplete
• notify me when content is updated (e.g. Foto-Album)