Questions about the Tagify component

[Marzio]

I have a superficial knowledge for a full use of Tagify, and I need some clarification

I assume that in a mysql database we have an “articles” table with a “category” text field

To manage the categories of individual articles, we have in the back-end an article list page, a new article insertion page and an update page for each article already present in the database.

In the new article insertion page we have a text field “inp_categoria” which we convert into a tagify field

What I don’t understand is how to use the Data Source
Do I have to create a new table in the database with the list of possible categories to tag, or can I create a query that extracts the categories from the same table as the articles already inserted, grouping categories?

And in any case, if when inserting a new article I do not find a specific category in the list, how can I create a new one, or do I have to add it to an external “categories” table?

I hope I have explained my doubts sufficiently, and I think that probably others could have the same expectations as well
Thanks to those who can answer me

[Teodor]

It’s better to have a separate table which stores the available categories.

[Marzio]

Thanks Teodor
in fact, I thought this too
But I am left with the problem of inserting a new category
I explain myself better; if I am inserting a new article and I have to choose a category that is not yet present in the categories table of the database, how can I add a new one?

[Teodor]

You can create a page flow which checks if the added tag is custom.

Run it on Dynamic Events > Add on tagify. There is a isCustom property available so check it - if true, run the insert new category server action and pass the value to it.

On done event of the page flow, reload the server action which is used as a dynamic event for tagify.

[Marzio]

Thanks Teodor
yesterday i had a bit of commitments, now i try this suggestion

[Teodor]

Here’s a tutorial explaining how to do this:

Tagify - Creating New Tags and Storing them in the Database

Intro Sometimes, when using Tagify you want to be able to allow users to create new tags in addition to the ones already created and listed in Tagify. That’s useful when adding a new article or product with categories - so that users can create new categories directly using Tagify. Page Overview In this tutorial we have a simple insert record form for adding a new article: [Screenshot_1] Inside the form we have a category input, which is a dynamic Tagify control: [Screenshot_2] We’d lik…