Adding tags to packages

To easily query Fixlets for each package, add a tag to the package from the Manage Software Distribution package dashboard.

Before you begin

The package tagging feature is not enabled by default. To enable the tagging feature, a master operator must first click Settings and select Enable Package Tagging.

About this task

When you add a tag to a package, the tasks that are related to that package will contain the same tag value.

The package tagging feature is available in the Software Distribution site version 48 and later.

Note: Tags are case-sensitive.

Procedure

To add a tag to a new package, click New Package and enter the package tag in the Tag column.
To add a tag to an existing package, click Edit and enter the package tag in the Tag column.

Results

When a tag is added to a package, any Fixlet that gets generated from that package would contain the same tag. The Fixlet has a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) field that contains the tag value, which you can use to query Fixlets. For example, you can issue the following session relevance to query all Fixlets that have the tag value "mytag":

(name of it, id of it) of custom bes fixlets whose (mime field "x-fixlet-pkgTag"
of it = "mytag")