Auto Schedules

Tags

A label you attach to schedules so a long list becomes navigable. Trivial with ten schedules, and the difference between usable and not with two hundred.

What tags are for

A tag is just a name. Its value is what the list does with it: setting Group By to Tags opens a panel on the left listing each tag and how many schedules carry it. Pick one to see only its schedules.

A schedule can have any number of tags, and the Tag column shows them all — or “No Tag” where there are none.

Creating and editing

Go to Auto SchedulesConfigureTags. Tags are shown as cards, each with its name and how many schedules use it, and can be sorted by Name or Recently Added. There is a search box for finding one by name.

The Tags screen showing eight tag cards, each with its name, how many schedules use it and when it was added — The schedule count on each card is the quickest way to spot a tag nothing uses.

Add Tag opens a panel with a single field — the name.
Edit Tag renames it. Every schedule carrying it follows automatically.
Delete Tag removes it from every schedule that had it. The schedules and their captures are untouched.

The New Tag panel with a single Name field and Save, Discard and Save and add another buttons — Save & add another is worth knowing about when you are setting up a tagging scheme from scratch.

Applying them

Tags are chosen on the schedule form, in the Tags field at the foot of the Pages section. Because a batch of URLs created in one go share the settings on that form, they also share the tags — which is the cheapest moment to tag properly.

Tag at creation, not afterwards

Pasting forty URLs and tagging them once takes a second. Going back to tag forty existing schedules means forty edits.

Tagging schemes that work

By client or brand — the obvious one for agencies, and it makes a report per client a matter of grouping the list.
By purpose — compliance, competitor, uptime, archive. Useful because it usually maps to who cares about the results.
By environment — production, staging. Worth having the moment you capture both, because a staging capture mistaken for production is a real problem.
By market — pairs naturally with per-country Web Profiles.

Do not tag what a column already tells you

The list already shows the domain, the profile and the frequency, and it can group by domain on its own. A tag named daily or example.com adds nothing and makes the tag panel harder to read.

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