(Archived) QUESTION: What are parent tags, and how do you make them?

[David33409 17]

According to the documentation for AppleScript it appears that tags can have "parent tags". The following is from the Evernote Dictionary.

tag n : A tag.

elements

contained by application.

properties

name (text) : The tag's name.

parent (tag or missing value) : The tag's parent tag, if any.

Can anyone tell me how to setup parent tags and what they are used for?

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

[jbenson2 2,149]

David34309, I have been impressed with your questions. I am neither a MAC user nor a programmer, but I do use a lot of parent and child tags.

From my perspective, they are useful for grouping similar tags together.

Company

Com-Amazon

Com-Blackberry

Com-Carbonite

Com-Dropbox

The 3 character prefix (com) helps me narrow the possible tag selections.

But from a programming perspective, I do not believe there is any connection or association between the parent and child.

There are no hierarchical links between parent and child.

[David33409 17]

@jbenson2. Thank you for the kind words. Apparently on the Mac (and the web) the way you create parent tags is to drag another tag on top of it. I had assume that this feature existed based on the documentation but had no idea how to use it. Maybe the Windows world is more "common sense" or maybe I just missed the instructions.