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Hi all,

First of all my compliments on the engage publish module. It's a good module which can be configured to my needs.

I'm writing an articles import routine to import my old articles database in the Engage Publish tables. As suggested on this forum I'm using a DNN module written in C# for this task, which enables me to programmatically add the articles. I'm pretty far along, but I'm struggling with importing tags at the moment .

What I want is to import keywords from my old articles database as tags in Engage Publish. However I have no clue how to pull this off in code.

I'm hoping someone can provide me with a code example on how to add tags to new / existing articles programmatically. I would really help me out!!

Kind regards,
JJK1977

P.S. Apologies for my poor English. I'm not a native english speaker.

Alright, let's try this again

If you're trying to parse a comma seperated list you can use the following methods, this assume you already have an Article object called "a"

foreach (Tag t in Tag.ParseTags(post.mt_keywords, portalId))
{
    ItemTag it = ItemTag.Create();
    it.TagId = Convert.ToInt32(t.TagId, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
    a.Tags.Add(it);
}

That will look up a tag in the database, if it doesn't exist it will add it to the database, and then return the proper information to be added to the article.tags collection.

Hopefully that helps, if not please let me know.

Problem solved!

Thanks for your help.