# Tagging Content in Agility

> Source: https://agilitycms.com/docs/developers/tagging-content-in-agility

## What is Content Tagging and why is it important?

Content Tagging is extremely useful for creating relationships between content items, or nesting lists within an item. Agility makes this process easy and seamless.  

## Setting Up Content Tagging

Let’s go through the steps of setting up and getting started with content tags. 

## Creating a Tag Model

The first thing we’ll need to do is create a model for Content Tagging. To do this from the **Models Section** in Agility 

1. Click **New Content Model**


2. **Give it a Name**, we'll use Tags


![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Refresh - Tag Model New-03012024161627.png)

3. Add a simple **Text Field** and give it a name, we’ll use Title 

![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Refresh - Tag Model Text Field-03012024161726.png)

4. Click **Update Field **

5. Click** Usage** on the right-hand side and then **+ Add** 

![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Refresh - Tag Model Add Container-03012024161819.png)

6. Give it a name, we used Tags again and then click** Create List**

![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Refresh - Tag Model Container Name-03012024161909.png)

You can now Navigate to the **Content Dashboard**, click your **Tags List** and then click **New** to start adding Tag options. 

## Using your Tags Model

Your newly created Tags Model can now be added to another Content Model as a Linked List. To do this 

1. From the Content Model Dashboard, select the Content Model you’d like to add Tags to 

2. From the Add Fields menu on the right-hand side, drag and drop Linked Content and add it to the Model 

![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Refresh - Tag Model Linked Content-03012024162105.png)

3. To keep it simple, we’ll name it Tags again 

4. Under the Field Properties tab select the below options


![](https://cdn.aglty.io/agility-cms-docs/images/block-editor/Refresh - Tag Model Linked Content Prop-03012024162207.png)

- **Link to: **Content 

- **Link Type:** Specific Item(s) from a List 

- **Render UI: **Search List Box 

- **Content Selection: **Specific Content List 

- **Content Reference:** Your Tags List 

- **Save Value to Field: **Create a New Field 

- **Visible Fields: **Leave Blank 

You’ll now be able to go into the content you added the Tags field to and add Content Tags from the list you created earlier. 

## Sample Content Tags API Response

Here’s how tags might look in an API response for a Blog Post 

```
{
  "contentID": 16,
  "properties": {
    "state": 1,
    "modified": "2022-07-08T14:18:06.507",
    "versionID": 31,
    "referenceName": "blogposts",
    "definitionName": "BlogPost",
    "itemOrder": 1
  },
  "fields": {
    "title": "My First Post",
    "date": "2022-07-08T00:00:00-04:00",
    "tags": [
      {
        "contentID": 11,
        "properties": {
          "state": 1,
          "modified": "2022-07-08T14:01:19.15",
          "versionID": 26,
          "referenceName": "tags",
          "definitionName": "Tags",
          "itemOrder": 2
        },
        "fields": {
          "title": "Sports"
        },
        "seo": null
      },
      {
        "contentID": 13,
        "properties": {
          "state": 1,
          "modified": "2022-07-08T14:01:28.367",
          "versionID": 28,
          "referenceName": "tags",
          "definitionName": "Tags",
          "itemOrder": 4
        },
        "fields": {
          "title": "Lifestyle"
        },
        "seo": null
      }
    ],
    "content": "<p>This is my first blog post!</p>",
    "tags_TextField": "Sports,Lifestyle",
    "tags_ValueField": "11,13"
  }
}
```

**Further Reading**


- [Content- First Approach](https://agilitycms.com/docs/developers/content-first)
- [Content Models](https://agilitycms.com/docs/developers/content-models)
- [Fields](https://agilitycms.com/docs/developers/fields)