Why Have MetadataTags that are not listable?

So what solution would you propose if you want to list all tags except exclude printing a few of them to the user interface? i.e. I'm using listable tags as data directories. I also wanted to try to use it to list files that can be streamed.

The solution I'm using right now is to loop through the tags and just exclude certain ones from being printed as clickable links in the user interface, via a code snippet. This could get cumbersome the more complicated my application gets.

Thanks.

Thought I replied to this by email yesterday but the reply did not go through. Here it is -

Hi Mirando,

One way would be what you are doing in the application itself.

Another I can think would be to use tag hierarchies. Atmos allows creation of nested tags tag1/tag2/tag3. Then using the api, you can get all tags under tag1, or all tags under tag1/tag2.
Now, all your viewable tags could be in one root while all your hidden could be under another group. Then you could just get all the listable tags in the viewable group.
E.g.

Tag-viewable/viewable1
Tag-viewable/viewable2

Tag-hidden/hidden1
Tag-hidden/hidden2

Thanks,
Aashish

Thanks, Aashish.

So can you remove a user metadata tag?

For example, to move an object between hidden/ and viewable/

Yes, you should be able to delete a metadata tag and add a new one.

Check the Delete Metadata section in the Atmos Programmer's Guide

Regards,

Aashish