keyword management

I am brand new to testing Windows Vista Beta 2. I am wondering if there is any central location to manage keywords/tags? I'd like to avoid duplication of tags by seeing which tags I've already used and consolidate similar ones and have it dynamically update across the system.

I'm afraid not - they've started taking out some of these components... don't know why :os In the Save dialogs of documents, you should be able to edit them there.
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I am brand new to testing Windows Vista Beta 2. I am wondering if there is any central location to manage keywords/tags? I'd like to avoid duplication of tags by seeing which tags I've already used and consolidate similar ones and have it dynamically update across the system.

System wide tagging is not available to third party applications I am afraid. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"kgthunder" wrote in message

I am brand new to testing Windows Vista Beta 2. I am wondering if there is any central location to manage keywords/tags? I'd like to avoid duplication of tags by seeing which tags I've already used and consolidate similar ones and have it dynamically update across the system.

What do you mean exactly by that?
I've been playing around with the source code to the PropertyEdit SDK sample to enumerate, read and update tags and other property fields.
In addition there is an API to the indexing/search engine which allows you to do queries from 3rd party apps which also allows you to get the tags associated with files etc.
Cheers
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

System wide tagging is not available to third party applications I am afraid. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"kgthunder" wrote in message I am brand new to testing Windows Vista Beta 2. I am wondering if there is any central location to manage keywords/tags? I'd like to avoid duplication of tags by seeing which tags I've already used and consolidate similar ones and have it dynamically update across the system.

I haven't come across such a UI in Vista itself so far.
However given the combination of the search API and property store API it shouldn't be that difficult to create such an app.
If you look at the app I wrote using the previous version of the search API you'll see some of the code required.
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/msndesktopsearchqueryapi.asp
Cheers
"kgthunder" wrote in message

I am brand new to testing Windows Vista Beta 2. I am wondering if there is any central location to manage keywords/tags? I'd like to avoid duplication of tags by seeing which tags I've already used and consolidate similar ones and have it dynamically update across the system.